On the occasion of the day of remembrance of the victims of the deportation, this April 24, 2022, 80 years after the Vel d’Hiv roundup and the turning point that was the year 1942 with the implementation of the “Solution Finale”, the extermination of the Jews, La Marche du Monde is at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy, in the Paris suburbs, where poignant letters from internees and deportees are exhibited.
These letters, in neat handwriting or scribbled hastily with an ink pen, a piece of pencil lead or even blood, describe the daily life, the hunger and the hell of what they lived in Drancy which was a hub for the deportation of Jews from France. These intimate stories of these last letters from internees sent to their relatives shed light on the daily life of the Drancy camp, before their deportation to the death camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, most of which will not return. A fragile heritage to preserve and pass on to preserve this memory.
Participants:
– Karen Taieb, Head of Archives at the Shoah Memorial
– Testimonials collected by Maxime Grember: Daniel Baron, son of Abraham Baron deported in 1941; Jacqueline Reznik-Elgrably, daughter of Motel Reznik, arrested and deported in 1941; Philippe Nahman, grandson of Joseph Nahman deported in 1942
– Ludovic Cantais, director of the documentary “I wish there was something left”
– Cecile Fontainedocumentalist at the Shoah Memorial
– Therese de Paulis teacher, and secondary school students.
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Exhibition “It’s tomorrow that we leave” at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy