Testimony of Izio Rosenman in conversation with Régine Waintrater, at 7:30 PM
This meeting was organized as part of the great cycle of testimonies with the survivors of the Nazi camps that began on January 26, 2020.
Born in 1935 in Demblin (Poland), Izio is raised in a Yiddish culture imbued with the communist ideal. During the summer roundups of 1942, he is hidden, with his sisters, by a carpenter. In the summer of 1944, the family was taken to the internment camp in Czestochowa. Izio is then deported to Buchenwald where the communist resistance protects him within block 66 of the children. After the camp’s liberation, he was welcomed in France into the homes of the Œuvre de secours aux enfants (OSE).
This last testimony was recorded on January 18, 2021.
Exclusive screening of the film La mémoire d'Auschwitz by Manfred van Eijk
from January 27 to January 29, 2021
Documentary, 50', VOSTF, EO, Sarphati Media, Netherlands, 2020.
With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Synopsis: In order to preserve the buildings and objects preserved at the museum of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp for future generations, a team of young specialists in conservation and restoration is sent to the site. Over the course of their work, emotion catches up with them. How to preserve human hair? how to keep personal documents of former internees? These objects must be able to continue to be exhibited 75 years after the Holocaust in order to keep the memory alive. Manfred van Eijk and his team spent five years alongside the managers of the various restoration projects. They make us enter into this extraordinary and fascinating work carried out with respect for objects and buildings.
Presentation video by Erica Reijmerink, Producer, Sarphati Media Producties
Recorded in January 2020
Thursday 28 January 2021
Exceptional lecture by the historian Timothy Snyder, at 7:30 PM
With Bloodlands. Europe between Hitler and Stalin, a bestseller published by Gallimard in 2012, Timothy Snyder decisively renewed the historiography of the European continent during the 1930s and 1940s. In this exciting sum, 1941 appears as the pivotal year to capture the relations between the Nazi and Soviet systems. The American historian does us the honor of returning to the major issues of this decisive year in the course of the Second World War and the fate of European Jews.
Timothy Snyder holds the Richard C. Levin Chair of History at Yale University (United States), a permanent member of the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (Austria).
Introduction and discussion: Christian Ingrao, historian, research director at the CNRS, full member of Cespra/EHESS.
