In ‘Those Who Forget’, Géraldine Schwarz dares to evaluate her family tree by retelling her family history. Winner of the European Book Prize 2018, this book questions our European past and present. It invites us to reflect upon how nations should deal with collective guilt, and how to ensure we remember. This is a book you are likely to discuss with family and friends, or in class.
~ Her Majesty The Queen of the Belgians
Weaving together the threads of three generations of her family history – from Nazi Germany to Vichy France – with that of Europe’s process of postwar reckoning, Géraldine Schwarz explores how millions were seduced by ideology, how they were overcome by a fog of denial after the war and how, eventually, they confronted the past.
