HISTORY AND MEMORY: THE FILIAL NARRATIVE OF ANNE SINCLAIR
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Our aim was to study how, according to the operative concept of “postmemory” defined by Marianne Hirsch, Anne Sinclair, by crossing the family memory and the historical investigation, shed light on one of the unknown aspects of the persecution under the Occupation in France: the “roundup of the notables” and their confinement in the camp of Compiègne nearby Paris. With this story, A. Sinclair continued, after having previously paid tribute to her maternal grand-father in 21, rue La Boétie, her aim to retrace the family memory which suffered from the persecutions against the Jews during the Occupation in France. Her paternal grandfather, Léonce Schwartz, was one of the 743 French Jews arrested in December 1941. All were detained in the Compiègne camp, under German administration: a real Nazi concentration camp from which the first convoy of deportees left from France for Auschwitz in March 1942. In this personal story at the beginning, Anne Sinclair, by reconstituting the coexistence in this camp of assimilated bourgeois and foreign Jews, gave voice and presence to the disappeared, and her personal investigation became gradually a work of collective memory. In our analysis, our first step was to outline, shortly and precisely, the concept of filial narrative and postmemory whose we applied further in our work.
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