Claudine Drame

Claudine Drame is an award-winning French-Tunisian historian, author, and filmmaker. She is considered an international expert on representations of the Holocaust in cinema, and has personally collected numerous testimonies of French-speaking Holocaust survivors as one of three French academics sponsored by the French Division of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University. She has also trained others to interview Holocaust survivors for the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California, founded by Steven Spielberg. Ms. Drame is a Professor of History (Professeur agrégée d'histoire), a Doctor of Social Sciences (Docteur en sciences sociales), and Founder and Director of the Festival international du film contre l'exclusion et pour la tolérance, created in 1997. In 2007, she published her signature historical work "Des films pour le dire, reflets de la Shoah au cinéma, 1945-1985" (Les Éditions Métropolis, Genève), which won the Prix Henri-Hertz in that same year, accompanied by her feature-length documentary Témoignages pour Mémoire (2007) in DVD format. (Published 2019)