When the Fragmented Becomes the Stitched
Engaging Students Through Research
In a follow up to her inaugural Stanley D. Ginsburg USC Shoah Foundation Lecture Series event, Mélanie Péron will discuss how she and her students at the University of Pennsylvania drew upon a wealth of different sources such as diaries and archives to reconstruct the individual stories of Jewish children and their families in occupied France before they were reduced to a typed line on a deportation list. Ms. Péron will further examine the importance of using sources such as diaries and video testimonies to teach about the Shoah despite the inexorable disappearance of the last remaining witnesses.
MELANIE PERON is a Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the associate director of the Penn-in-Tours summer program. She was the recipient of the USC Shoah Foundation Rutman Fellowship for Research and Teaching (2016-2017). As a Price Lab for Digital Humanities fellow, she created a multimedia digital map of Occupied Paris and two websites related to the Holocaust in France : Occupied Paris and En marge du journal d'Hélène Berr.
