Jacques
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Jacques Altmann

Jacques, whose birth name was Adolphe, was born in 1923. He grew up in Romainville with his three brothers, soon joined by an orphaned cousin whom they considered to be their fifth sibling. The day the police came to his house, Jacques wasn’t there. His parents and brothers were arrested. Eventually, he will be arrested, but he managed to escape from the police headquarters. Arrested a second time, he was made to stripped naked in the street. He was then sent to Drancy and then to Lévitan, a Parisian furniture store requisitioned to sort looted Jewish goods. [...+]

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« On the quay, I must have seen 300,000 people go by who would later on be killed. »

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« They stripped me in front of all my classmates. »

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« When I got married, I had nightmares I wanted to strangle my wife. I had to fight, to make them see that they hadn't succeeded in exterminating us. »

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« In Auschwitz, I'm part of the "welcoming committee", the Kanada. »

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« I didn't want to take off my pants. »

Livres

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.