Reportage. A Poitiers, l'Institut de commémoration des martyrs et héros de la Shoah a décerné deux médailles à des justes, ces hommes et femmes qui ont aidé les juifs pendant la seconde guerre mondiale au péril de leur vie. Interview de Colette HAYOUN, qui raconte comment la famille GAUTRON a sauvé sa propre famille de la déportation. Interview de Roger GAUTRON, puis d'Alphonse CERF. [Source : Prompteur France 2] - Dans d'autres villes de France se sont déroulées des cérémonies du souvenir... comme à Poitiers, où l'institut de commémoration des martyrs et héros de la Shoah a décerné deux médailles à des justes, ces hommes et femmes qui ont aidé les juifs pendant la seconde guerre mondiale au péril de leur vie. Christophe de Vallambras. Stéphane Allérangue.
Report. During the Second World War, Corsica was the only French territory where no deportation of Jews took place to the death camps and no Jewish family saw any of its members executed on the island. Testimony of Victor DEBO-COHEN, Corsican Jew who was two years old in 1942. Maxime COHEN, president of the Corsican Jews, would like Corsica to be recognized as a just nation. Commentary on filmed sequences, archive images and interviews of Victor DEBO-COHEN and Maxime COHEN, president of the Jews of Corsica.
Report in Marseilles dedicated to Ivan BELTRAMI, 86 years old, decorated with the medal of the Righteous among the Nations by the State of Israel for having sheltered in his home five people. Commentary on archive images. Interview with Ivan BELTRAMI.
Report on the story of Maurice ARNOULT, 97 years old Juste des Nations, bootmaker in Paris, in the Belleville district, who saved two Jewish children from the Vel 'd'Hiv' raid. The commentary on factual images alternates with the interview with Maurice Arnoult and Joël KROLIK, one of the Jewish children saved from the round-up.
A report about the village of Chambon-sur-Lignon in the Haute Loire region, which hosted during the Second World War nearly five thousand Jewish children housed in the families of the village and students housed in the Maison des Roches. The village is the only one in France to have received a Collective Just Medal Comment on the alternation of images of the village, of title-benches and interviews of the historian Gérard BOLLON recalling that the only slogan of the village was: "we must save the children" and the testimonies of Solange BLANC whose parents have collected a little Jewish girl Nicole. .
Awarding a medal to a Loiret family who, during the Second World War, hid and saved Jews, Mrs KLEIN talks about the French who risked their lives and evokes the creation of the Institute Memorial of Martyrs and Heroes, Yad Vashem in 1953.
Next to the Yad Vashem Memorial, where today’s Holocaust Memorial was held, is the Walk of the Righteous; An alley where names appear from all nationalities of women or men who saved Jews, sometimes at the risk of their lives; In the late afternoon, at the Hôtel de Lassay, at the National Assembly in Paris, in the presence of President Raymond Forni, 16 Juste were honoured; Among them, Edmond Durand, who hid Jewish children among the students of the College of Castres. Testimony of Edmond DURAND and Georges WAJNBERG, one of the children rescued from Castres College.
In the Upper Loire, the village of Chambon-sur-Lignon, village of the Righteous received an unexpected donation of two million euros, It is a pharmacist Erich Schwam, of Austrian Jewish origin, Died at the end of December at 90 years in Lyon without descendants who bequeathed his inheritance to the commune which hid him when he was a child during the Second World War. Interview with Denise VALLAT, Deputy Mayor, about the story of Eric SCHWAM and the family who hid it without ever revealing anything, a tradition of the Protestant faith fleeing persecution during the religious wars in France.
Report. During the Second World War, Alain BERNSTEIN, a Jew, was hidden by a couple of farmers from Loir-et-Cher, while he was still a baby. Today the parents died but he kept close ties with their daughter. Commentary on archive images of the exodus on the roads, on images of the house, on family photos, alternating with the testimony of Alain BERSTEIN and Anne-Marie BRETON-CARRE.
Report on the ceremony that took place in the Pantheon in tribute to the Righteous of the Nation, these anonymous people who, at the risk of their lives, saved Jews during the Second World War. Commentary on images of the ceremony, with excerpts from the speeches of Simone VEIL, President of the Republic Jacques CHIRAC, the testimony of Suzanna REYNE, survivor of the Shoah.
A look back at the Vel d'hiv raid that took place 40 years ago. Testimony of Ginette SZAPIRO, she was then 10 years old, she tells. Illustration with photos of the contemporary Jewish documentation center.
In Cavaillon, meeting with Mr and Mrs BAUDEAU, whose house is close to the railway line, they housed many escaped prisoners and deported during the Second World War, including a man with a broken leg after jumping from the train.
Report in Thonon-les-Bains to meet Jeanne BROUSSE, former secretary of the refugee office during the Second World War. She returns to the places where she worked and then explains at home how she made burning papers to save Jews persecuted and deported under the Vichy regime by changing their names. Testimony of three sisters whose parents were arrested and who were saved from the deportation thanks to the complicity of Jeanne BROUSSE. It is presented at the Inauguration of the Memorial to the Memory of the Just, unveiled by Mrs CATHERINE TRAUTMANN, Minister of Culture and spokeswoman of the Government. Commentary on factual images alternating with the interview of Jeanne BROUSSE and the testimony of three sisters.
Recorded interview of Sabine ZLATIN, 85, who during the Second World War housed 44 Jewish children in a colony in Izieu, then deported and gassed in Auschwitz after the Izieu Raid of April 6, 1944. Mrs ZLATIN has just published "Memoirs of the Lady of Izieu". She presents the drawings and letters of these children that she will give to the National Library. Insists that light be shed on the role played by the General Union of the Israelites of France in relations with the Jewish population and with the government of Vichy.
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