National Policy, Global Memory

Trained in the social sciences, Sarah Gensburger is a sociologist of memory and a historian of the Holocaust. She is currently a researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS-ISP) and the author of Witnessing the Robbing of the Jews (Indiana University Press, 2015), co-author of Nazi Labor Camps in Paris (Berghahn Books, 2011) and co-editor of Resisting Genocides: The Multiple Forms of Rescue (Columbia University Press, 2011).

"Gensburger's work which provides a wealth of detail about the individual actors, as well as the interest groups, lobbying for the recognition of non-Jews who came to the aid of Jewish victims of Nazi policies throughout World War II-era Europe.... [It] artfully demonstrates how memory studies benefits from political scientific analysis, and as such ties the social sciences together in the field of Holocaust Remembrance." International Social Science Review

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From "The Righteous among Nations" to the "Righteous of France:"Chapter 1. Memory as an Instrument of Foreign Policy?Chapter 2. Memory Entrepreneurs and the French SpaceChapter 3. Memory Public Policy and TransfersChapter 4. The National Day as a Public Policy InstrumentChapter 5. Social Norms and Memorial CategoriesChapter 6. Memory Policy and InstitutionsEpilogue: The "Righteous of France" in the PantheonAppendix A: Methodology and CorpusAppendix B: Detailed References of Official TextsBibliographyIndex