Short film of the lighting of the torches on the eve of Holocaust Day, 2003. Torchlighter Denise Siekierski. Includes testimony of against a background of family photographs, archival photographs and a visit to Yad Vashem.
An interview with Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist, who was a hidden child during World War II. It identifies possible ways of thinking in order to better understand the difficulties of speech about these shocking events.
This documentary traces the history of the Righteous of the Rhone-Alpes. These people risked their lives during the Nazi occupation to save persecuted Jews.
סרט תיעודי על ניצול שואה אלי ארדיטי, יליד 15 מאי 1923 שנולד באיזמיר בטורקיה. הוא הגיע 22 אוגוסט 1934 למרסיי עם משפחתו. שנה לאחר מכן הגיעו לפריז. לאחר 3 שנים הוא גורש למרסיי. הסרט מספר על בריחתו משילוח לאושוויץ.
Des enfants juifs cachés durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale dans le Berry - région en partie traversée par la ligne de démarcation - nous livrent pour la première fois les souvenirs de ces histoires pleines d’humanité. Aux sauvetages individuels à Sagonne, à Vandoeuvres, à Sury-près-Léré ou dans d’autres villages du Berry se mêlent une histoire collective à Châteaumeillant où des dizaines de familles juives trouveront refuge. Le documentaire apporte un éclairage sur des faits et des histoires oubliés, dans ces lieux du Cher ou de l’Indre où des hommes et des femmes ont dit non à la barbarie, sauvant ainsi, entre...
Filmmaker, historian, and author Raphael Delpard released this Documentary film, which focuses on the Jewish victims transported from France to Nazi concentration camps during World War II, in cattle car convoys operated by SNCF – the French national train company. Delpard himself was one of the fortunate few who survived the harrowing and unforgettable journey and subsequent imprisonment. He conveys the horrors of the experience through interviews with survivors as well as re-enactments of the actual events that took place.
This film is about a little known aspect of the deportation of Jews from France. It explains how, in August 1942, 11 000 men, women, children, Jews who had fled to the south of France entirely under the authority of the Vichy regime, were arrested by police and gendarmes in the French term fully prepared to raids by French officials. Based on the story of survivors, supported by the analysis of eminent historians, this documentary reconstructs the details of this crime. It was supported by the FMS.