Writings of teenagers during the Holocaust

© Calmann-Lévy

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

Briefs and journals

Around the publication of «Between the walls of the Wilno ghetto (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); 'Journal' by Rywka Lipszyc, ed. Calmann-Lévy, 2015.
During the war, Yitskhok Rudashevski and Rywka Lipszyc (14 and 15 years old) keep a diary in ghettos in Lithuania and Poland.
Janina Hescheles (12 years old), barely exfiltrated from a camp, writes her memoirs.

© Soul Rodeo

Poetry and theatre

Around the release of "On a besoin d'un fantôme" by Hanuš Hachenburg, ed. Rodéo d'âme, 2015 *

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