Memories of the Algerian war: silences and unspoken words in families
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A room of the Historical Service of the Army (SHAT) at the Château de Vincennes, shelves where historical documents collected on the Algerian war are archived.
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By: Chantal Lorho Follow
30 mins
Almost sixty years after the end of the Algerian war and while rape and torture are still taboo, a historian has reviewed the unspoken, the silences in the families who lived through the war and the consequences in family transmission.
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Guest: Rapha
ë
lle Branche,
professor of contemporary history at the
University of Paris Nanterre
,
author of
Papa, what did you do in Algeria
?
Investigation into a silence
(Éditions La Découverte).
She worked from written letters and diaries of those who lived through war.
And the column Elsewhere in Brussels with Donald GEORGES, director of the
Maison de la Francité.
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