'Opa' by Simon Maller Preview
Thursday 30 November 2017 at 8:30 PM
France, documentary, 40 min, Gala Gala Productions, 2016.
© Takeover by Simon Maller.
In 1942, Edmond Richemond is 13 years old when his mother is arrested during the Vél d'Hiv roundup. Managed to escape, he is taken in by neighbors and later entrusted to La Colonie scolaire and the EEIF who take him to Switzerland. Refugee in Geneva, he is transferred to the Cropettes sorting centre then to the camps of Charmilles, Varembé and Champel. Until the end of the war, he worked in a luxury hotel in Cran-Montana. He will find his brother and father, both survivors of Auschwitz.
As part of the documentary film month 
In the presence of the director Simon Maller, of Fabienne Regard, historian, professor, Elie Wiesel Institute, and of Edmond Richemond.
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