Writings of teenagers during the Holocaust

Sunday 26 June 2016 at 2:30 PM
© Calmann-Lévy

© Calmann-Lévy

This meeting will take place in two stages and will address the memoirs and newspapers but also poetry and theater.

Briefs and Logs

Around the publication of "Between the walls of the ghetto of Wilno (1941-1943)" by Yitskhok Rudashevski, ed. l'Antilope, 2016 *; "Through the eyes of a 12-year-old girl" by Janina Hescheles, ed. Classiques Garnier, 2016 (published with the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah); 'Log' by Rywka Lipszyc, ed. Calmann-Lévy, 2015.
During the war, Yitskhok Rudashevski and Rywka Lipszyc (14 and 15 years old) kept a diary in ghettos in Lithuania and Poland.
Janina Hescheles (12 years old), barely exfiltrated from a camp, writes her memoirs.

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Poetry and theatre

Around the publication of "On a besoin d'un fantôme" by Hanuš Hachenburg, published in Rodeo d'âme, 2015 *

Hanuš Hachenburg (13 years old), interned in the ghetto of Terezin, writes a puppet play where he delivers a buffoon rewriting of Nazism.

In the presence of:

Claire Audhuy, artistic director of Rodéo d'âme, Batia Baum, translator of Yitskhok Rudashevski’s Entre les murs du ghetto de Wilno (1941-1943), Baptiste Cogitore, writer, Judith Lyon-Caen, lecturer, EHESS, Kamil Barbarski, translator of Rywka Lipszyc’s Journal, Gilles Rozier, publisher, and Judith Lindenberg, historian.

Led by:

Catherine Coquio, professor of comparative literature, Paris 7-Denis-Diderot university.

PRICES: €5 / €3