Of a rare literary quality, "A confiscated life," an intimate diary written in 1942 by a Parisian Jewish student describes with sincerity the questions of a young French girl brutally marginalized from society by antisemitic legislation. This newspaper is an unpublished testimony of the period of the German occupation in Paris.
Benjamin Fondane, poet, thinker, filmmaker and playwright, tragically disappears in the Shoah. Jewish, Romanian and French-speaking, this bubbling intellectual contributes to the avant-gardes in interwar France and weaves a network of friendships with the prominent personalities of his time.
The exhibition traces the exceptional journey of this champion of French swimming. Excluded from society by the anti-Semitic legislation of the Vichy regime, he was deported to Auschwitz in January 1944. Despite the trials, Alfred Nakache finds the strength to return to the highest level and participates in the Olympic Games in London in 1948.
This exhibition tells the story of his extraordinary journey. For her and her family, the 20th century is first of all that of a tragedy: the deportation to Auschwitz, with her mother and sister, where she discovers the absolute horror. She will be saved by this courage that marks her entire career, the stages of which belong to history [...]
Ginette Kolinka is a survivor of the Holocaust and shared her experience as an inmate at Auschwitz during WWII. His survival itinerary and testimony are often presented in exhibitions and commemorative events to raise awareness about the horrors of the Shoah and promote tolerance and understanding.
