Je Reviendrai – a film by Jean Barat

Sunday 17 May 2020sunday 24 May 2020

From May 17 to 24, 2020, the Shoah Memorial invites you to see or review

"I will come back"

Je reviendrai by Jean Barat, 2015, France, 1h07, documentary, produced by J.W Production – Jacques Ferrara & Injam Production – Marc Andréani.

Synopsis:

In May 1941, 28-year-old Zysman Pin is arrested in Paris by the French police for being a Jew and interned at the Pithiviers camp. On 25 June 1942, he was deported to Auschwitz. 70 years later, he tells how he managed to survive four years of internment and deportation. This documentary focuses on the conditions of this survival and on the perspective of a 100-year-old man who looks back at his destiny and that of his family, leading him to live one of the greatest tragedies of humanity.

With the participation of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l'image animée and the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah.

Historical advisor: Annette Wieviorka

Voiced by: Carlo Brandt

Music by Jean-Noël Yven

About Zysman Nevis

Legend The Pin-tarot family in 1946, Khayé and Zysman with their children Jacques born in 1936 and Roger born in 1940.
Credit: Shoah Memorial/coll. Jacques Pin

Zysman Pin was born in Poland on 15 January 1913 in Kònskie near Lodz. The youngest of seven children, his mother and then his father died prematurely. In 1931, Zysman left Poland to join his older sister, Sarah, who moved to Paris in the 1920s. He was 17 years old.
Sarah and her husband Moshé have 5 children. Zysman, barely older than the eldest son, moved into the family home in the Marais district and worked as a tailor.
On 30 June 1936, he married Khayè Grundman, the sister of Moshé. They had two sons, Jacques born in 1936 and Roger born in 1940.

During the Occupation, Zysman Pin is arrested on 14 May 1941 during the so-called "Billet vert" roundup and then interned in the camp of Pithiviers. He manages to maintain an often clandestine correspondence with his wife.
On 25 June 1942, Zysman Pin is deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in convoy no. 4 and given the number 42,695. He was notably assigned to a carpentry kommando.
Transferred on 18 January 1945 during the "death marches" to the Mauthausen camp and then to the Ebensee camp, Zysman Plaque was released on 6 May 1945 and repatriated to Paris on 24 May 1945 where he found his wife and children who managed to escape arrest.

Also to be discovered: Zysman Pin..., Letters to Khayè. Clandestine correspondence of a love in times of war, Calmann-Lévy, 2017.

http://jereviendrai-lefilm.com/

A few words from Jean Barat, director