My thesis examines the creation, transmission, and contestation of the collective memory of harkis (Algerians who fought in the French Army in the Algerian War of Independence) and their descendants. It investigates how the harkis use various cultural carriers of memory (such as films and memoirs) and organizational carriers of memory (such as association websites) to communicate their memory to other members of their community and the rest of French society. Harki memoir writers and harkis writing on association websites share a general understanding of their history, but they emphasize different moments and offer contradictory interpretations of events, which often leads to conflicts within the community. Memoir writers, who are mainly daughters of harkis, construct a memory of victimhood that is highly personal and ambiguous. Sons of harkis writing on the association websites, however, promote a more unified and static version of the past that is essentially heroic.