Salomon Buch, a young Bundist under the Occupation

in the context of the exhibition Images de la rafle du "billet vert"

On the occasion of the publication of An Oath to the Life of Salomon Buch, collection of memoirs of Holocaust survivors by the Azrieli Foundation, 2025.

Salomon Buch is 17 years old and lives in the Jewish quarter of Belleville when the Germans invade France. In 1941, his father was arrested during the "billet vert" roundup. On his advice, Salomon fled to Lyon, in the free zone. On 16 July 1942, the Vel d'Hiv roundup took away the rest of his family, with the exception of Denise, the eldest of his sisters. In this testimony of a striking hypermnesia, Buch gives us his story and, with it, that of an entire milieu still remaining today in the state of traces: the Paris of the Bund and its various organizations, whose ties of solidarity continued during and after the war.

In the presence of Annette Wieviorka, historian and preface of the book, and Catherine Person, head of the French Collection at the Azrieli Foundation.

In conversation with Constance Pâris de Bollardière, historian, deputy director of the George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention.

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