Clandestine newspapers

Thursday 08 June 2017 at 8:30 PM

Around the publication of Journal 1943-1944 by Leïb Rochman and Carnets de clandestinité, Bruxelles 1942-1943 by Moshé Flinker, ed. Calmann-Lévy/coll. Memorial of the Shoah, 2017; Journal of the Vittel camp by Yitzhak Katzenelson, ed. Calmann-Lévy/coll. Shoah Memorial, 2016; The Deluge by Leïb Rochman, ed. Buchet-Chastel, 2017.

journaux-clandestinsIn 1943, Yitzhak Katzenelson keeps his diary at the camp of Vittel in France; Leïb Rochman writes his diary while it is hidden behind a double partition in the farm of a Polish peasant, then in a pit dug in a stable – two documents of rare intensity written, one in Hebrew, the other in Yiddish. Moshe Flinker is 16 years old in 1942 when he begins to write his diary in Brussels in Hebrew. Three years later he dies in Bergen-Belsen.

As part of the Holocaust Memorial Book Fair.

In the presence of Guy-Alain Sitbon, Isabelle Rozenbaumas and Rachel Ertel, translators.

Moderated by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat, translator and essayist.

Attention, as this event is full in the auditorium, the remaining seats are in the broadcasting room.

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