Midi au Mémorial – Dominique Arban – Intellectual networks and the Resistance during the war

Dominique Arban: intellectual networks and the Resistance during the war by Cecilia Toninato.
As part of the historiographical debate on the involvement of intellectuals in the anti-fascist struggle of the 1930s and 1940s, Cecilia Toninato proposes to focus on the figure of Dominique Arban.

Dominique Arban, whose real name was Natacha Huttner, was a Jewish writer, critic and translator of Russian origin who took refuge in France in 1914. During the Occupation, she joined the Resistance networks and contributed to the underground newspaper Combat.

Guest speaker: Cecilia Toninato, a doctor of history at the University of Naples and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, is completing her doctorate on Italians in Belgium during the Second World War. She is the second recipient of the Jean-Pierre Vernant Imec / Mémorial de Caen scholarship.

François Bordes, Director of Research at the Imec, will be the moderator.

At the Caen Memorial / Marc Bloch amphitheatre, Thursday 26 February at 12.30pm.
Admission: free, subject to availability.

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