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Between 1933 and 1945, various initiatives to support scientists in exile were set up in France, notably with the creation of the Comité des Savants. Louis Rapkine, a biochemist at the Institut de biologie physico-chimique (IBPC), was the real linchpin of the rescue of these scientists forced to flee their country. This historical episode is also closely linked to the creation of the CNRS in 1939. We find the same actors: Jean Perrin, Henri Laugier, Paul Langevin, Irène Joliot-Curie... This…

Portrait de Milena Jaksic, lauréate de la médaille de bronze 2020 du CNRS. Chercheuse en sociologie à l'Institut des sciences sociales du politique, spécialiste de l'anthropologie de la violence et des conflits armés et en recherche sur la traite des êtres humains.

Portrait de Sarah Gensburger, lauréate de la médaille de bronze 2019 du CNRS. Chercheuse en sciences sociales, spécialiste de la mémoire et membre de l'Institut des sciences sociales du Politique (DR05) dont elle est directrice adjointe depuis 2018.

Portrait de Marie Cornu, lauréate de la médaille d'argent 2019 du CNRS. Directrice de recherche en droit à l'Institut des Sciences sociales du Politique (DR05), spécialiste en droit de la culture et en droit du patrimoine.

As a sociologist of Memory at the Institute of Social Sciences and Politics, Sarah Gensburger tells the forgotten story of the labour camps inside Paris, which were outbuildings of Drancy's major concentration camp. During the so-called Operation Furniture, a vast spoliation endeavour set up by the Nazis, three Parisian buildings were seized between 1943 and 1944. During this period, Drancy detainees were transferred there to sort, clean and repair 38,000 belongings plundered in Jewish…