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 Shoah and the genocide of the Tutsi in Rwanda, as well as a cross-examination of the concepts 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 soon returned to Paris where they were subjected to the first anti-Jewish measures. As a teacher at the Eclairetes Israélites de France, Yvette welcomes, rue Claude-Bernard in Paris, children of deportees until their dispersal into hiding. His group of Girl Scouts was arrested by the Gestapo on 22 July 1944, and transferred to Drancy, where they arrived "singing to keep their spirits up". Yvette was deported on 31 July 1944 by convoy No. 77 to Auschwitz Birkenau, with 1,300 people, including a 15-day-old baby born in Drancy, and many children. Back from deportation, Yvette continues to testify tirelessly about her experience with schoolchildren.
The video presented today is intended to be a first presentation of the exchanges between the students and Yvette, which will be the subject of a joint meeting at the Memorial in order to present the films and continue their reflections with the witnesses.
