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Meet Alexis Lecomte, author and tour guide, discussing his work on the traces of the Second World War, in a dialogue between archival photographs and contemporary shots.
A meeting of literature and history: Didier Daeninckx and Hervé Le Tellier explore the traces of the Second World War in individual destinies and collective memory.
A lecture on literature devoted to Auschwitz, from the testimonies of Primo Levi and Charlotte Delbo to today's accounts and fiction, with Maxime Decout and Guido Furci.
An immersive trail at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy and at the Bobigny deportation station, to discover the testimonies of Hélène Berr and Charlotte Salomon.
In occupied Paris in 1942, Edmond Batignole, an ordinary butcher, chooses to fight to save the life of Simon, a Jewish child. Ages 9 and up.
Three brave children, François, Eusèbe and Lisa, resist the Nazis in occupied France: sabotage, hidden messages and escapes. A film for ages 8 and up, during the All Saints' Day holidays.
Testimony of Evelyn Askolovitch, born in 1938 in the Netherlands to a German Jewish family, arrested in 1943 and then liberated from Bergen-Belsen in 1945. In 2023 she co-wrote Se souvenir ensemble (Remembering Together) with her son Claude Askolovitch.
A lecture on the daily life of Second World War prisoners of war, based on archives, photographs and accounts, notably at the Drancy camp.
Screening of Patrice Spadoni's documentary about three childhood friends from the 20th arrondissement, spanning the Popular Front, the STO and the Resistance, followed by a discussion with the director.
Two-part documentary about Alderney, a British island annexed by the Nazis to create a concentration camp there, with deportees from more than thirty countries who passed through Drancy.
Philippe Douroux traces the contrasting paths of Max Jacob and Jacques Evrard, interspersed with readings from Max Jacob's texts.
A philosophical discussion on how German intellectuals and elites were able to legitimize Nazism, and on what that says about our relationship to truth and responsibility.