Priscilla Pizzato’s "The KGB Manuscript Saved ‘Life and Destiny’ by Vassili Grossman," followed by a meeting
Sunday, January 14, 2018 at 2:30 PM
France, documentary, 58 mn, Ex Nihilo, Arte, 2017. With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.
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Considered one of the most violent charges ever brought against the Stalinist regime, Life and Fate of Vasily Grossman was confiscated by the KGB in 1961, before being smuggled to the West nearly 20 years later. This film is a journey closer to its characters, the political and philosophical reflections of its author, his prose, his humanity.
followed by the meeting
Early knowledge of the Shoah
Autour de la parution de Premiers savoirs de la Shoah, sous la direction de Judith Lindenberg, éd. CNRS, 2017.
Vassili Grossman is the author of one of the very first texts on Treblinka, which he discovered in the autumn of 1944 with the Red Army. This book focuses on the development of these "early knowledge" on the extermination of Jews, he questions reports, investigations, testimonies, collections of history and memory books, poems.
In the presence of the director Priscilla Pizzato, the director of the book Judith Lindenberg, and Olivier Rolin, writer.
Led by Judith Lyon-Caen, senior lecturer, EHESS.
Rates: €5/€3
