Jacques Sémelin
French historian · France · On the map · Writers · Born 1951 · age 75
Jacques Sémelin is a French historian and political scientist. He is a professor at Sciences Po Paris and senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS).
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His main fields of study are the Holocaust, mass violence, civil resistance and rescue in genocidal situations, and more recently the survival of Jews in France during the Second World War. In 1998, he created a pioneering course on genocides and massacres at Sciences Po Paris. He is the founder of the Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence.
