Constance Pâris De Bollardière

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Constance Pâris de Bollardière is a historian who joined the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention in 2016 and became the Assistant Director of the Center in 2021.

Her research is on Holocaust survivors in early post-World War II France, with a special focus on members of the Jewish Labor Bund and on questions of social reconstruction, transatlantic solidarity, migrations, and Yiddish culture.

She also works on the history of Holocaust survivors’ testimony, from early writings published in Yiddish to more recent video and digital projects. 



Education/Degrees

  • PhD in History, Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales (2017)
  • Master in History, Université Paris 7 - Paris Diderot
  • Courses in American History and Anthropology, Miami Dade College, Fulbright fellowship 
  • BA in History, Université Paris 7 - Paris Diderot

Publications

Testimony editing

  • Marek Edelman, Ghetto de Varsovie. Carnets retrouvés, Paris, Odile Jacob, 2022. Introductory essay (p. 17-39), notes, biographies, chronology, bibliography (translated into German by Jens Hagestedt in Erinnerungen an das Warschauer Ghetto, Philipp Reclam Verlag, 2024).

 

Volume Editing

  • After the Darkness? Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2023 (with Sharon Kangisser Cohen).
  • “Les migrations juives d’Europe centrale et orientale en France au lendemain de la Shoah”, Archives Juives. Revue d’histoire des Juifs de France, 54 (1), 2021 (with Simon Perego).

 

Journal Articles

 

Book Chapters

  • “Introduction” (with Sharon Kangisser Cohen), in Constance Pâris de Bollardière and Sharon Kangisser Cohen (eds.), After the Darkness ? Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2023, p. 7-31. 
  • “A Yiddish Artistic and Intellectual Home for Migrant Shoah Survivors, 9 rue Guy-Patin, Paris (1947-1950)” (with Malena Chinski), in Constance Pâris de Bollardière and Sharon Kangisser Cohen (eds.), After the Darkness ? Holocaust Survivors’ Emotional, Psychological and Social Journeys in the Early Postwar Period, Jerusalem, Yad Vashem, 2023, p. 151-177. 
  • “The French Bundist Movement after the Holocaust: Between Self and Collective Reconstruction, 1944-1948”, in Vincenzo Pinto (ed.), Bundist Legacy after the Second World War. “Real” Place versus “Displaced” Time, Leyde/Boston, Brill, collection “Studies in Jewish History and Culture”, 52, 2018, p. 39-55.
  • “'Écritures de la destruction' et reconstruction : Yankev Pat, auteur et acteur du monde yiddish. Le cas de Paris, 1944- 1948”, in Judith Lindenberg (ed.), Premiers savoirs de la Shoah, Paris, CNRS Editions, 2017, p. 275-291.

 

Dictionaries and Other Entries (selection)

  • “Le soulèvement du ghetto de Varsovie (avril-mai 1943)”, Les chemins de mémoire, numéro hors-série “Villes en guerre”, November 2025, p. 22-25.
  •  “Le 9 rue Guy-Patin, lieu de vie collective d’artistes et intellectuels juifs d’Europe orientale au lendemain de la Shoah”, in Sylvie-Anne Goldberg (ed.), Une histoire juive de la France, Paris, Albin Michel, 2023, p. 942 (with Malena Chinski).
  • “Bund”, in Jean Leselbaum et Antoine Spire (eds.), Dictionnaire du judaïsme français depuis 1944, Paris/Lormont, Armand Colin/Editions Le Bord de l'Eau, collection “Judaïsme”, 2013, p. 127-129.
  • Yankev Pat, Henekh, un enfant juif échappé du ghetto [Henekh, a yidish kind vos iz aroys fun geto], Et le monde écrivait... : lire la collection yiddish “Dos poylishe yidntum” (1946-1966), online on August 29, 2013 [poly.hypotheses.org/93].
  • Avrom Teytlboym, Cours de Varsovie [Varshever heyf], Et le monde écrivait... : lire la collection yiddish “Dos poylishe yidntum” (1946-1966), online on December 13, 2013 [poly.hypotheses.org/181] (with Fleur Kuhn).

 

Exhibition Catalogs and Documentary Films

  • Historical advisor to the documentary film Les survivants. L'impossible départ après la Shoah, directed by Antoine Dauer and Michèle Dominici for Artline Films, broadcasted on ARTE in January-February 2026.
  • The Resistance of the Bund in Juifs, résistants et combattants, Musée de la Résistance en ligne, 2022.
  • Après la Shoah. Rescapés, réfugiés, survivants (1944-1947), Paris, Editions du Mémorial de la Shoah, 2016 (with Henry Rousso, Laure Fourtage, Julia Maspero and Simon Perego).

 

Annotated Bibliography

  • “French-Language Books Published in France in 2016–2021”, East European Jewish Affairs, 51/2-3, 2021, p. 308-318.

 

Preface

  • Preface (p. 9-13) to Henri Minczeles, Histoire générale du Bund. Un mouvement révolutionnaire juif, Paris, L'échappée, 2022.


Book reviews (selection)

Conferences & Lectures

Interventions in international conferences (selection):

“Critical Perspectives on the Impact of Holocaust Knowledge on Values: A Review of Quantitative Literature” (with Brian Schiff), 17th biennial meeting of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS): The Challenge of "Never Again": Engaging with Protection and Prevention of Genocide, The Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, October 2025.

“Paris as A Temporary Yiddish Center? Central and East European Jewish Migrations to France (1945-mid 1950s)” (with Simon Perego), conference Remapping Yiddishlands: Global Yiddish Culture in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries, Kaplan Center, University of Cape Town, May 2025.

“Early Return to Post-Holocaust Poland: Yankev Pat’s Ash un fayer (1946)”, 9th International conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars (INoGS): Genocide and Survivor Communities: Agency, Resistance, Recognition, co-organizer (with Emilie Garrigou-Kempton) of the session “Return Narratives: Documenting Destruction in the Homeland”, USC Dornsife Center for Advanced Genocide Research, University of Southern California, June 2024. 

“A Multi-Directional Contextualization: Marek Edelman’s Recovered Notes on the Warsaw Ghetto”, conference Looking at the Ghetto… The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Eighty Years in Retrospect, Dubnow Institut/University of Leipzig, April 2023.

“Organiser et publier un concours d’écriture autobiographique sur l’expérience de guerre : enjeux éditoriaux et influences culturelles dans le quotidien yiddish communiste parisien Naye Prese, 1947-1949” (with Simon Perego and Malena Chinski), 8th conference of the Transfopress Network: Paris, Polyphonic Metropolis: The Foreign-Language Press in the French Capital (19th-21st Centuries), INALCO, Paris, March 2022.

Affiliations

  • Member of the Commission Histoire de l'antisémitisme et de la Shoah of the Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah (FMS)
  • Member of the research collective "Connus à cette adresse. European Cities and Social Dynamics of Anti-Jewish Persecutions"
  • Book reviews coordinator of French publications, East European Jewish Affairs
  • Member of the Association française d'études américaines (AFEA)
  • Member of the Société des études juives (SEJ)
  • Member of the editorial board of the journals Tsafon. Revue d'études juives du Nord and Archives juives. Revue d'histoire des Juifs de France