"The Visit" by Marc Grandsard projection

As part of Yom HaShoah

France, documentary, 59 min, production Centre Georges Devereux, with the support of the Mémorial de la Shoah, 2019.

They are about ten former hidden children, most of them orphans from the Shoah, born between 1935 and 1943 in France. Their parents, their grandparents, mostly emigrants from Poland, were deported to Auschwitz and Sobibor. They were saved by the skin of their teeth, hidden among non-Jewish French people. They had never dared to make the trip, but since they participated in the monthly meetings of the group of former hidden children, led by psychologists, at the Shoah Memorial, they wanted to visit the Auschwitz camp.

In the presence of the director, Chief Rabbi Olivier Kaufmann, Olivier Lalieu, historian, responsible for places of memory and spatial planning at the Shoah Memorial, and Nathalie Zajde, lecturer in psychology at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes Saint-Denis.

Led by Alexandre Doulut, historian and trainer at the Shoah Memorial.

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