Jean-Marc Dreyfus

Jean-Marc Dreyfus is reader in History and in Holocaust studies at the University of Manchester (History Division), United Kingdom. His research considers the Holocaust and genocides, Jewish history in Europe and post-mass violence exhumations and identification of corpses. He is the author of six monographs, including L’impossible réparation. Déportés, biens spoliés, or nazi, comptes bloqués, criminels de guerre (The impossible reparation. Deportees, looted properties, Nazi gold, war criminals), Paris, Flammarion, January 2015. He has recently edited a special issue of the European Review of History, on “Traces, memory and the Holocaust in the writings of W.G. Sebald”. He is the co-organizer (with Elisabeth Anstett) of the ERC research programme “Corpses of mass violence and genocide”. He currently holds a senior research fellowship from the British Academy, to write a book about the French search mission of corpses in Germany after WWII.

Main publications:

Books:

• (2016). Les rapports de Berlin. André François-Poncet et le national-socialisme. (1 ed.) (Fayard Histoire). Paris: editions Fayard.
• (2016). Editado  junto a Alexandre, D., & Coen, P.  Pour en finir avec Mein Kampf et combattre la haine sur Internet.  Lormont: Le Bord de l’eau.
•  (2015). L’impossible réparation. Déportés, biens spoliés, or nazi, comptes bloqués, criminels de guerre (The impossible reparation. Deportees, looted properties, Nazi gold, war criminals). Paris: Éditions de Noyelles.
• (2013). Déportés et diplomates. Les négociations diplomatiques des suites de la déportation, 1945-2001 IEP Paris (Tesis doctoral)

Articles and chapters of books:

• (2017). «… de criminelles expériences pseudo-médicales ». Le rôle de l’ADIR dans la négociation des réparations allemandes aux « lapines » de Ravensbrück, 1951-1968: ‘… some criminal pseudo-medical experiments’. The role of ADIR in the German negotiations over compensations for the ‘lapines’ in Ravensbruck, 1951-1968. In Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps. Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine.
• (2016). Les rapports de Berlin. André François-Poncet et le national-socialisme. In Les rapports de Berlin. André François-Poncet et le national-socialisme. Paris: Flammarion.
• (2016). A bad reputation: Dr. Julius Hallervorden and his collection of brains in the Fédéral Republic of Germany. Unknown Journal, n° 128.
• (2015). The Transfer of Ashes after the Holocaust in Europe, 1945-1960. Unknown Journal, 1(2), 21-35.
• (2015). Non, les réparations allemandes ne sont pas une solution à la dette grecque. Le Monde.