Evelyn
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Evelyn Askolovitch

Evelyn was born in Amsterdam in 1938, after her family left Germany, worried about the rise of Nazism. Turned in by neighbors, they were arrested and deported, first to the Netherlands, then to Bergen-Belsen, one of the few camps where they didn’t kill the children on arrival, unlike Auschwitz. At the time, Evelyn was not yet four years old; she barely remembers the long year she spent in the camp. Her memories start after the war, when she remembers becoming a child again. When the family returned to Amsterdam after the war, [...+]

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« Only four children from my class returned. All the others were gassed at Auschwitz. »

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« At school, it was as if the war had never happened. »

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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.