Esther
Senot

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Esther Senot

Born in Poland in 1928, Esther grew up in the Belleville neighborhood of Paris, where her parents moved to in 1930. She lived happily with her six brothers and sisters, until everything changed on July 16, 1942, the day of the Vel’ d'Hiv round-up. At her mother’s request, Esther went to see what was going on in the neighborhood. Because she wasn’t home at the time, she avoided getting arrested. But when she returned to her house, she found the apartment empty and the door sealed. Alone in Paris at the age of 14, [...+]

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« They arrested my parents and my little brother, who was 11. »

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« History is repeating itself, maybe not in the same way, but it's strangely similar. »

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« They needed their thousand people, so they emptied the maternity ward. »

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« When we came back, nobody wanted to believe us »

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« We were told "life expectancy can be a few months, weeks or days". »

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Sophie Nahum
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Les derniers

Rencontre avec les survivants des camps de concentration

There are not many left who can bear witness to the concentration camps. Barely a hundred men and women, who were silent for a long time in the face of a post-war France that was reluctant to listen to them. Survivors thanks above all to a succession of chance events, they were able to rebuild their lives with remarkable courage. Sophie Nahum went to meet the “Last Ones”, these extraordinary resilient people, including Ginette Kolinka and Élie Buzyn, for a series of short documentaries, from which results this choral book. Their testimonies echo each other, while revealing the singularity of each destiny. In this way, the last survivors of the Shoah – 75 years after the liberation of Auschwitz – offer us a poignant look at their experiences.

“Touching. These men and women speak from the heart”. Paris Match

“My heart beat for [this] book.” Leila Kaddour.

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.