Talk:Irène Némirovsky
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This article needs some serious fact checking by someone familiar with Irène Némirovsky and/or someone who has access to the appropriate reference materials. The article states, for example, "French citizenship was denied to the Némirovskys in 1938, and they were soon required to wear the Yellow badge." These two matters are unrelated. Why are they in the same sentence? The denial of citizenship had nothing to do with the Yellow Star requirement, which didn't come for another two-plus years and after Germany invaded France. This sentence makes it sound as if, because the French government denied her citizenship, she was required to wear a Yellow Star.
Holocaust deniers roam all over the web for the tiniest of errors regarding the Nazi era. When they find sloppy scholarship like this, they pounce on it and use it to their advantage. Greater care should be taken in writing article on topics like this; rushing a sloppy article online here with factual errors serves no purpose and is, in fact, counter-productive and destructive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.232.195.108 (talk • contribs)
- Your comment seems (to me personally) slightly "over the top". I see no factual error in what you quote. The article seems to be a translation from the French Wikipedia article. I think the French article and the translation are both pretty good. But you are quite right that this particular sentence, in the translation, is misleading. The two facts in it occur several sentences apart in the original French article, because they relate to events two years apart. I guess that someone combined them into one sentence because the refusal of citizenship and the Yellow Star both demonstrate aspects of 1930s antisemitism: they are related, therefore, but not as closely as this wording would suggest. I'll revise the text.
- No one has rushed a sloppy article online. Keep in mind that anyone can write and edit Wikipedia, which means that anyone, including you, can improve it. Feel free to do so. Andrew Dalby 16:47, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cause of Death
This article states "She was interned at Pithiviers and then transported to Auschwitz where, according to official papers, she died during an experiment in which petrol was injected interveneously into her bloodstream"
However the Irene Nemirovsky website states (like several other sources on the internet) "she was arrested by gendarmes and deported to Auschwitz in July 1942, dying of typhus a month later at the age of 39"
Which is true? Can the truth be put in this article please, together with an explanation on the why there is confusion on this subject. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.128.77.116 (talk) 15:13, 6 March 2007 (UTC).
- There's no real confusion, just a bit of insidious vandalism. The article was edited on 28 February by 65.185.29.109, some paragraphs were taken out, and this invention was inserted. I think I've put it right. Thanks for pointing out the problem. Andrew Dalby 18:16, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Was she an anti-semite?
Information citing three relevanbt reviews/commentaries now added. Additional clarifying information is welcome.
http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=414
17:45, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] First works of literary fiction about World War II
The article previously read, "They are possibly the first works of literary fiction about World War II." This claim is clearly not true. There is plenty of literary fiction about the Second World War, including Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman and Troubled Sleep by Jean-Paul Sartre. Poldy Bloom (talk) 06:32, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
