Henri
Frischer

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Henri Frischer

The only son of Polish parents, Henri was born in Paris in 1938. In 1942, when anti-Jewish laws forbade his father to work as a furrier, the family decided to leave for the Free Zone separately; first the father, then the mother and son, while they gathered a few things together. But it didn’t go as planned, and Henri and his mother were stopped by the French police at the Chalon-sur-Saône station. Along with seven other children, the little boy narrowly escaped deportation thanks to the intervention of the Red Cross, [...+]

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« When life is mundane, you don't remember the daily humdrum. But when extraordinary things happen to you, you have no choice but to remember. »

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« My father was alerted by a telegram from the Red Cross. »

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« We waited, but people didn't come back from the camps. »

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« After the war, the hardest for me was not having my mother, I missed my mother’s love. »

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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.