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Between graphic narratives, contemporary literature and cinema, these three events invite to explore new forms of transmission so that memory remains alive and accessible to all generations.
Monday, April 13, 2026, at 9
Meeting
At a time when the last witnesses disappear, comic strips and graphic novels occupy an increasing place in the transmission of the memory of the Shoah. How has graphic creation become a central relay of memory transmission? How to reach a younger audience while preserving historical rigor? Around a panel composed of illustrators and historians, this meeting questions the aesthetic, ethical and pedagogical issues of graphic narrative.
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Proposed with the Éclaireuses et Éclaireurs israélites de France and other youth movements.
Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at
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Innayah & Suzanne / Shyna & Lucette / Naël & Bernard / Antoine & Georges.
France, documentary series of 4 episodes, 4 x 6 min, produced by Brave Girl Biper Ad (c) Fondation Opej, 2025.
What is the link between Suzanne Avner, 89, a Polish Jew born in Paris and Innayah, 12, a Muslim of Moroccan origin born in France? 80 years apart, they will grow up in the same place, the Children’s House of the Opej (Work for the protection of Jewish children) in Rueil-Malmaison. Four films present four pairs of children and elders, each revealing a singular and deeply human encounter. At the turn of a few words, the conversation begins, the elders recount their memories of a childhood damaged by the Shoah, the youngest entrust them with their own journey and dreams for the future.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026 at
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France, documentary, 59 min, produced by the Georges Devereux Center, with the support of the Shoah Memorial, 2019.
They are about ten former hidden children, most of them orphans from the Shoah, born between 1935 and 1943 in France. Their parents, their grandparents, mostly emigrants from Poland, were deported to Auschwitz and Sobibor. They were saved by the skin of their teeth, hidden in the homes of non-Jewish French people. They had never dared to make the trip, but since they participated in the monthly meetings of the group of hidden former children, led by psychologists, at the Shoah Memorial, they wished to visit the Auschwitz camp.
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