Dr. Diane F. Afoumado
Dr. Diane F. Afoumado is Chief of the Holocaust Survivors and Victims Resource Center in the David M. Rubenstein National Institute for Holocaust Documentation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. She was a Museum Fellow in 2003 and worked on a book project about the MS St. Louis and the refugee crisis in the late 1930s.
Formerly Assistant Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Paris 10-Nanterre and the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris, Dr. Afoumado worked for the two French Commissions related to compensation to Jewish victims (Office of the Prime Minister). She worked as a Historian for the Archival Division of the Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, Mémorial de la Shoah. Afoumado also worked for the Archival Department of the French Ministry of Justice.
Dr. Afoumado is the author of several books: Indésirables 1938 : La Conférence d’Evian et les réfugiés juifs, (Calmann-Lévy / Mémorial de la Shoah, 2018) ; L’affiche antisémite en France sous l’Occupation, (Berg International, 2008); Exil impossible. L’errance des réfugiés juifs du paquebot St.Louis (L’Harmattan, 2005), co-author with Serge Klarsfeld of La spoliation dans les camps de province, (La documentation française, 2000).
She participated in the following publications: ITS Research at the USHMM for Descendants of Holocaust Victims and Survivors; Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present, Volume 1, Edited by: Henning Borggräfe, Christian Höschler and Isabel Panek, (De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2020); Introduction for France to the volume III of Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, Camps and Ghettos under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany, (p. 89-98); as well as the entry for Drancy (p. 134-136), 2017; The Care and Maintenance in Germany Collection – A Reflection of DP Self-Identification and Postwar Emigration; Jahrbuch des International Tracing Service, (Wallstein Verlag, 2014); Repicturing the Second World War. Representations in Film and Television, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007); Evoking Genocide. Scholars and Activists Describe the Works That Shaped Their Lives, (The Key Publishing House Inc, 2009); and wrote more than 20 articles related to the Holocaust.
