Who we are?
In search of lost Norman witnesses
Appeal for witnesses of the Second World War: the University of Caen-Normandy website www.memoires-de-guerre.fr would like to give a face to 18 Norman witnesses whose fascinating testimonies are now online. In the case of 11 of them, we would at least like to find their Christian names! We also want to pay homage to their interviewers who have so far remained anonymous. So we ask witnesses and/or their descendants to get in touch and write to us here:
Viviana AGOSTINI-OUAFI (senior lecturer in Italian)
Université de Caen Normandie
UFR Langues Vivantes Etrangères Campus 1
MLI Maison des Langues et de l'International
Esplanade de la Paix CS 14032 Caen Cedex 5.
Project manager of « Mémoires de guerre » (War Testimonies): Viviana AGOSTINI-OUAFI
Manager of the University de Caen Normandie website: Viviana AGOSTINI-OUAFI
Assistant director: Eric LEROY DU CARDONNOY, head of the ERLIS EA4254 team
Technical manager
Emmanuel GIGUET (computer science researcher for the French National Centre for Scientific Research)
Editorial board
Viviana AGOSTINI-OUAFI, Jean-Louis BEAUFRÈRE, Caroline BÉRENGER, Catherine BOUGY, Gilles CARRÉ, Rossella GIARDULLO, Hildegard HABERL, Nadia HAÏT-BACHIR, Faysal KENANAH, Ivana KLJAKOVIĆ-GAŠPIĆ, Helga LUX, Étienne MARIE-ORLÉACH, Katarzyna PAPIEZ, Penny STARFIELD, Anatoly TOKMAKOV, Ineke WALLAERT
Scientific Committee
Oleg BUDNITSKI, Faysal CHÉRIF, Mariella COLIN, Boris CZERNY, Gaël DIAS, Lindsey DODD, Abderrahim EL MOATAZ BILLAH, Álvaro FLEITES MARCOS, Patrizia GABRIELLI, Emmanuel GIGUET, Sarah GRUSZKA, Adam JATOWT, Pierre LARRIVÉE, Eric LEROY DU CARDONNOY, Nadine LUCAS, Simone NERI SERNERI, Carmen PINEIRA TRESMONTANT, Pavel POLIAN, Alessandro PORTELLI, Jean QUELLIEN, Valentin SCHNEIDER
Partners
Claire PAULHAN (Chargée de mission IMEC, Institut Mémoires de l’édition contemporaine) Domnine PLUME (Archives départementales de Saint-Lô) Marie TASSEL (Association "Mémoires et Terroirs", Cherbourg-Octeville)
Since December 2015, this website has become totally extensible: from now on, we may be uploading new files at any time, so we apologise for any inconvenience caused by any technical problems we may face. We are indeed planning to publish new testimonies translated into languages other than the five (French, Russian, Italian, English and German) already available. We are also in the process of publishing other translations we have been keeping in our digital archives since May 2012.
Please note that the introduction to the bilingual brochure Récits de Normands et de Toscans / Racconti di normanni e di toscani, edited by V. Agostini-Ouafi in May 2012, presents the project which led to the creation of this website. This brochure can be downloaded from this page or from the homepage.
