'Between night and light': The voices of Alsace-Moselle come out of oblivion
While the Wall of Names will be inaugurated in 2026 in Schirmeck, at the foot of the Alsace-Moselle Memorial, a unique sound experience invites us to rediscover the singular history of this territory. The podcast "Between Night and Light" offers an immersion in ten episodes to pay tribute to more than 38,000 Alsatians and Mosellans who died or disappeared during the Second World War.
A journey to the heart of memory
Through ten life stories and the analysis of historians, this podcast shares the memory of those crushed by the conflict: forced conscripts, civilian victims, soldiers in French uniforms, Jews, resistance fighters, Gypsies, Jehovah’s Witnesses, homosexuals or psychiatric patients. By mixing words from the archives and testimonies of descendants, each story transforms the names digitally engraved on the Wall into vibrant human destinies.
The Wall of Names is a project carried by the Grand Est Region, supported by the Ministry of the Armed Forces and Europe (FEDER). This podcast, written by Maud de Carpentier and Stéphanie Wenger, directed by Anna Buy, produced by Making Waves, is the result of an exceptional partnership between the Alsace-Moselle Memorial, the INA and the Shoah Memorial, with the support of numerous regional scientific and cultural institutions.
"Between night and light" – a title borrowed from the poem "To those whom my heart loves" by Claude Vigée (1958).
