Jacques
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Jacques was born in 1936 in the Paris suburbs, where his parents had emigrated from Romania in the 1920s. He had a twin brother and two older sisters. In July 1942, informed of the imminent roundup, Jacques' mother took her four children to Perpignan, where her husband was already a refugee. Upon her arrival, she learned that her husband had already replaced her by another woman. After a brief stay with their father, the four children were hidden with different families. Jacques, mistreated by the family who took him in, was rescued by his mother in 1944, [...+]

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« The police commissioner came to tell us to leave immediately. »

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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.