Historian Pierre Vidal Naquet talks about the Nazis' obsession with the destruction of the Jews by stressing that trains used for the deportation of the Jews had priority over military trains.
The historian Yves Ternon explains why the history of the Holocaust was written so late: at the Nuremberg trial the specificity of the Holocaust was not at the centre, then the survivors of the Holocaust were not heard after the war. It was not until the years 60-70 that it emerged..
Who will live, who will die? The historian Tala Bruttmann explains the two distinct functions of the Auschwitz camp: concentration camps and extermination camps.
Interview with Ginette KOLINKA, 91, survivor of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp who continues to testify to the horror of the Nazi camps among young people in schools. Interviewed at home and at the Shoah Memorial in Paris, she expresses doubts about the usefulness of her action and is worried about the existence of deniers.
Report. Meeting with Ginette KOLINKA, a survivor of the Auschwitz extermination camp who, 71 years after the liberation of the camp, continues to testify. She travels to schools to talk about her experience. Commentary on factual and illustration images which alternates with the interviews of Ginette KOLINKA and young people. [Source: French prompter 3] Just 71 years ago, on January 27, 1945, the Russians liberated the Auschwitz extermination camp... Ginette Kolinka was one of the survivors who went through hell... Since then, she has never stopped testifying to young people... At 91, she wants to believe that they will continue this work of memory... Sandrine ARAMON, Samuel GUIBOUT
Meeting in Belfort with Maurice URBAJTEL. This Pole, deported in 1944, arrived in the Territory of Belfort in 1948. A survivor of the Auschwitz camp, he decided to tell his story to the younger generation to fight against denial. Marie-Antoinette VACELET, historian, stresses: "he was upset at the idea that we could deny what he had experienced in his flesh".
Simone VEIL evokes the nauseating odours that emanated in the Auschwitz concentration camp, due to the unspeakable living conditions and the incessant smoke of burned bodies.