Les derniers

Shelomo Selinger, a Polish Jew, entered Nazi hell at the age of fourteen. In four horrific years, he experienced nine concentration camps and two death marches. How did he survive? “Instinct, chance, brotherhood. And then, oblivion.”

Stricken with amnesia at the end of the war, his memory would not return until seven years after his liberation. And it would take him twenty years to embark on a series of over one hundred charcoal drawings depicting the hell of the camps. Even today, when a scene comes back to him, it obsesses and haunts him, until he succeeds in representing it, and transforming it into a work of art.

In front of Sophie Nahum’s camera, Shelomo Selinger deciphered some sixty of these drawings, describing them in no particular order, as he does when testifying in front of schoolchildren. Together, they decided to publish them in a book, putting his testimony down on paper in an invaluable work of memory.

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