Tag: Second World War
an exhibition looks back on the history of the largest French prison camp
It was the largest French prison camp in Berlin during World War II. And yet, he had fallen into oblivion. Its last traces were to disappear forever with the launch…
“Babi Yar. Context”, a documentary by Sergei Loznitsa on the “Shoa by bullets”
Signed by Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa, “Babi Yar. Context” is an archival film that looks back on the massacre of Jews in kyiv during the Second World War. In September…
[RDV en septembre] A look back at three outstanding personalities from the 1st season of our podcast
News cookies taking a little break and will be back in September. You can find all our episodes on your listening platform and on www.rfi.fr. Before this summer break, a…
in Pithiviers, the fight against anti-Semitism at the heart of Macron’s speech
French President Emmanuel Macron marked this Sunday, July 17 the 80ᵉ anniversary of the Rafle du Vel d’Hiv, during which thousands of Jews were deported in 1942, by inaugurating in…
Arlette Testyler, survivor of the Vel d’Hiv roundup: “I tell this story for those who did not return”
It was just 80 years ago. On July 16 and 17, 1942, on the orders of the Vichy government, French police arrested nearly 12,000 Jews. In Paris, 8,000 of them,…
Laurent Joly, historian: “The Roundup of Vel d’Hiv”
The Vel d’Hiv roundup, 80 years to the day after this tragic event, a look back at the Vel d’Hiv roundup, with historian Laurent Joly, author of a historical investigation…
Rachel Jedinak, tireless witness to the Holocaust
Rachel Jedinak was eight years old on July 16, 1942, when the French police arrested her, her older sister and their mother during the great Vel d’Hiv roundup. For twenty-six…
Facial recognition at the service of families of Holocaust victims
An American engineer has voluntarily developed a powerful facial recognition system to identify anonymous victims of the death camps during the Second World War. Free, it is accessible to the…
In Germany, a centenarian sentenced to five years in prison for Nazi crimes
Never has such an old defendant been tried for his participation in the atrocities committed by the Third Reich. The former guard of the Sachsenhausen camp, near Berlin, was sentenced…
Elie Buzyn, one of the last great French witnesses to Auschwitz, has died
Elie Buzyn, father of former French Minister of Health Agnès Buzyn, died Monday May 23 at the age of 93. During his life, he worked to transmit the memory of…