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. Shoah Memorial, 2017; Vittel camp newspaper by Yitzhak Katzenelson, ed. Calmann-Lévy/coll. Shoah Memorial, 2016; The Flood of Leïb Rochman, ed. Buchet-Chastel, 2017.

journaux-clandestinsIn 1943, Yitzhak Katzenelson keeps his diary at the Vittel camp 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. Moshé Flinker was 16 years old in 1942 when he started writing his diary in Hebrew in Brussels. Three years later he died 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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