Élie Buzyn
Sunday 08 July 2018 at 14:30
On the occasion of the publication of J'avais 15 ans. Vivre, survivre, reviver. Les leçons de vie d'un adolescent rescapé d'Auschwitz by Élie Buzyn, ed. Alisio, 2018.
August 1944. After a happy childhood in Lodz, in Poland, Elijah undergoes the deportation and the murder of his own, Auschwitz and the ' Marches of death ” up to Buchenwald. He is 15 years old. The camp was liberated on 11 April 1945. How to come back to life? After the dehumanization, the release is long and complex. A time that lasts for decades. Fifty years during which he cannot tell. Carried by the voices of the past, he tries to rebuild elsewhere what has been destroyed. Strange journey from Buchenwald to France, passing through Palestine and Algeria, strange journey from death to life. Élie Buzyn gives here an exceptional testimony on the occasion of the first publication of its Briefs.
