Les Derniers - Elvire

Elvire
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Elvire Rosemont

Born in Paris in 1931 into a family originally from Vizhnitz (now Ukraine), Elvire enjoyed a happy childhood surrounded by her parents and grandparents. As soon as the war broke out, the family left Paris and moved to Grenoble, where Elvire attended a Catholic boarding school. When the situation worsened, she was sent to a convent, then hidden by local farmers. Mistreated by the first family she was with, she found refuge with another family, where she felt at home – as a matter of fact, she would return to see them regularly after the war. When the war ended, she was reunited with her parents, who had survived hiding in a factory in Grenoble. After difficult school years, she became an executive secretary and left for Israel in 1959, where she met the man who was to become her husband. [...+]

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« I wasn't supposed to say I had a dad »

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Sophie Nahum
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.

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