Ph. D. in History. lectures in Jewish contemporary History at the Institut des langues et civilisations orientales. She co-directs a seminar on the Shoah History at the Sorbonne. Being qualified as a museum curator, she also took part in the planning of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. (1993). She is the commissionner of the permanent exhibition at the Musée-mémorial des enfants d'Izieu.

Publications include: Les camps de la honte. Les internés juifs des camps français, 1939-1944 (1991).