Salomon Buch, a young Bundist under the Occupation

in the framework of the exhibition Images of the 'green ticket' raid

On the occasion of the publication of An oath to life by Salomon Buch, collection of memoirs by Holocaust survivors from the Azrieli Foundation, 2025.

Salomon Buch is 17 years old and lives in the Jewish district of Belleville when the Germans invade France. In 1941, his father was arrested during the 'billet vert' raid. On the advice of the latter, 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, his sisters' eldest. In this testimony of a striking hypermnesia, Buch gives us his story and, with it, that of an entire milieu still in the state of traces today: 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 author 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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