One stays, the other leaves… The itineraries of two historians and Holocaust survivors in Paris (1947–1953)

At the beginning of 1947, Joseph Wulf and Michel Borwicz, two Polish Jewish migrants, members of the Jewish Historical Commission of Krakow since 1945, settled in Paris and started a small research institution dedicated to the history of Polish Jewry and its destruction during the Shoah. The study of the itineraries of these two intellectuals as they crossed post-war Yiddish Paris leads to an analysis of the resources that this world of exiles and survivors may have provided them (or not) and the links they may have (or may not have) forged with it. Working on this conflictual duo also means questioning the routes of exit from this Yiddish-speaking hub.