If Yvette Lévy were told to me ...
As part of the week of education and actions against racism and antisemitism, students from two schools implemented a video project around the history and memory of two genocides, the Holocaust and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, as well as a crossed look on the notions of transmission and prevention.
Yvette Lévy née Dreyfuss was born in Paris in 1926, to Jewish parents originally from Alsace. The whole family moved before the war near Paris, to Noisy le Sec. The family experienced an exodus in 1940 and fled to Tours, but quickly returned to Paris where they underwent the first anti-Jewish measures. Yvette, an Israeli scout at the Eclaireurs israélites de France, welcomes, rue Claude-Bernard in Paris, children of deportees, until their dispersal in clandestinity. His group of Girl Scouts was arrested by the Gestapo on July 22, 1944, and transferred to Drancy, where they arrived "singing to keep their spirits up". Yvette will be deported on July 31, 1944 by convoy No. 77 to Auschwitz Birkenau, with 1,300 people, including a 15-day-old baby born in Drancy, and many children. Returned from deportation, Yvette continues to testify tirelessly about her experience with school students.
The video presented today is intended as a first presentation of the exchanges between the students and Yvette, which will be the subject of a joint meeting at the Memorial to present the films and continue their reflections with the witnesses.
