Bernard
Kanovitch

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Bernard Kanovitch

Born in Paris in 1932 into a Lithuanian family, Bernard was 9 years old when his father was arrested in August 1941. After the rest of the family narrowly escaped the Vél' d'Hiv roundup, Bernard’s mother sent him and his brother into hiding in the Free Zone, while she stayed in Paris with her youngest daughter, still a baby. When the boys came back to Paris at the end of the war, they were orphans, since their parents and sister had died in Auschwitz. Their aunt then took them in. Five years later, [...+]

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« The baby didn't cry even though the police were banging on our door. »

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Sophie Nahum
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Les Derniers

Enfants Cachés

Of the 70,000 Jewish children living in France in 1939, around 11,000 perished in the camps, while the rest miraculously survived the war, often in hiding, in convents, in the countryside, sometimes in closets. Today, only a few of them can testify to their experience of hiding, their loss of identity, the uprooting from their family environment and the silence that followed the end of the war. History has been slow to make room for them in the hierarchy of victims.

Sophie Nahum went to meet the last surviving hidden children of the Holocaust to hear what they had to say. These men and women speak out here, sometimes for the first time, and it is the children they were that we hear.

Sophie Nahum has been making documentaries for over 20 years. After working for the major channels, most notably Arte, she decided to produce her films independently. Young et moi (2015, awarded at FIGRA) was the first, followed by the multi-media project “Les Derniers”, to which she has devoted herself entirely for the past four years.