Francine
Christophe

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Francine Christophe

Francine was born on August 18, 1933, into an old French family with many well-established professionals. Her father, a prisoner of war, managed to send her mother a coded letter advising her to leave Paris with their eight-year-old daughter. She followed his advice, but the police arrested them on July 26, 1942, in La Rochefoucauld, as they tried to cross the demarcation line. Together, they were first sent to the Poitiers camp, guarded by French gendarmes, then to Drancy. Francine has terrible memories of seeing countless children there, alone, wounded and exhausted. [...+]

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« A little child left me his doll before he was deported. »

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« I said to my son, "Look, it's your mother's childhood. »

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« With this dress, all of a sudden I was a normal girl again, just a girl. »

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« My grandmother used to say: "When your dignity is taken away, you have to keep it no matter what". »

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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.