Ginette Kolinka, itinerary of an Auschwitz survivor

Ginette Kolinka, a Holocaust survivor, was deported to Auschwitz in April 1944 at the age of 19, with her father, brother and nephew. The latter were assassinated upon the arrival of the convoy. Ginette, she is selected for work and she survives. For more than twenty years, she has been going to Auschwitz with groups of students. In October 2020, she is in Birkenau one last time. She is accompanied by a journalist, Victor Matet and a comic book author, Jean-David Morvan. From this meeting is born an album Adieu Birkenau, in which Ginette Kolinka tells about her life before, during and after the Holocaust. The Shoah Memorial in partnership with the publisher Albin Michel, has created a traveling exhibition based on the comic strip. The exhibition, weaving links between the panels of the comic strip and the period documents, archives and photographs, places the journey of Ginette Kolinka in a broader history of the persecution of Jews in France during the Second World War.