It discussed the ways in which Holocaust memoralization had evolved rapidly before 1993 no European country had an official ceremonial response to the Nazi destruction of Jews and other populations, whereas the next decade saw a promulgation of these ceremonies. Her first book, Commemorating the Holocaust: The Dilemmas of Remembrance in France and Italy, was published by Oxford University Press in 2013. She became a professor of European and transnational history at Durham University in the fall of 2021. A fellow of the Royal Historical Society, she held a junior research fellowship at Worcester College before joining the faculty at Swansea University in 2009. She attended Oxford and receiving her DPhil in 2008, focusing on the development of Holocaust commemoration in postwar France and Italy. Biography Ĭlifford was born in Kingston, Ontario and studied at McGill University and Queen's University, before receiving a Masters from the University of Toronto in 2001. Her 2020 book, Survivors (Yale Press), was won the 2021 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Scholarship and has been nominated for a number of awards including the Cundill Prize, the Wingate Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Rebecca Clifford (born June 16, 1974) is a Canadian historian and professor of history, focusing on contemporary European history, oral history, memory, and Holocaust historiography. Survivors: Children's Lives After the Holocaust
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