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Life and Fate of the Black Book. The Destruction of the Jews of the USSR
France, documentary, 92 mn, Les films du poisson, 2019.
During the Second World War, Russian writers gathered around Ilya Ehrenbourg and Vassili Grossman documented the destruction of Jews in the Soviet territories conquered by the Nazis in an unpublished book, the Black Book. But the manuscript was not published and its authors were hunted, murdered or muzzled by the Stalinist authorities. Despite the 3 million dead, half of the victims of the Shoah, the memory of the events is erased from official history, until the dislocation of the USSR where the manuscript is found and published by Ehrenburg’s daughter.
A few words about Guillaume Ribot:
Guillaume Ribot, 49 years old, is a photographer-director-author. After studying photography and art history, he quickly devoted himself to press photography. His work as a reporter and on the Holocaust has been published in national and international newspapers (Time, Paris-Match, Marianne, Le Monde, New York Times...). He accompanied, for more than 4 years, as a photographer and field coordinator, the work on the mass shootings of Jews in the East led by Father Patrick Desbois in Ukraine and Belarus. His photographs on this theme have been exhibited at the Shoah Memorial and the Jewish Heritage Museum in New York. For more than 20 years, he has devoted most of his work to memory.
A few words about Antoine Germa:
Antoine Germa, 46 years old, is a text worker, screenwriter, playwright, author and radio journalist. Agrégé d'histoire, he taught for ten years at the lycée Alfred Nobel in Clichy-sous-Bois in Seine Saint Denis, before producing radio documentaries for France Culture and being a columnist and reporter on France Inter. He has been in charge of programming at the Forum des Images de Paris since 2000. Screenwriter, he has written for the cinema, short and feature fiction films, with, among others, the directors Nader Takmil Homayoun and Francis Reusser. He is also the co-author of documentaries—including animation—directed by Rafaël Lewandowski, Hendrick Dussolier and the Colombian Juan José Lozano. In 2011, he is with the historian Evelyne Patlagean and Benjamin Lellouch, the director of the collective work
With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
