The celebration of Purim in the DP camps as part of the Les Traversées du Marais festival

Sunday 11 September 2016 at 2:30 PM
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Purim Parade at the DPs camp in Landsberg, Germany, ca 1946. © Zvi Kadushen (Beth Hatefutsoth Photo Archive, Zvi Kadushin Collection).

Purim, this festival of disguise, excess and relief is also celebrated after the war by survivors in displaced persons' camps. They say, sing, play the world, reconnecting with Yiddish theater and pursuing the word interrupted but not extinguished.

Presentation of archives and filmed images, notably excerpts from the film by Fredersdorf and Goldstein Lang ist der Weg (1947/1948).

In the presence of Nathalie Cau, PhD student in performing arts, university Paris Ouest-Nanterre.

Led by Claude Singer, historian, head of the educational department, Shoah Memorial.

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