Jacques
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Jacques Lubin

The youngest of four siblings, Jacques was born in Paris in 1933 to Polish parents. As soon as the war broke out, the family left Paris to take refuge in La Bourboule, then in a small village near Limoges (central southwest of France). In 1944, Jacques' father and brother were arrested. His mother then took her youngest son into hiding in a hamlet near Oradour-sur-Glane. Since he was not attending school at the time, he eluded the massacre of June 10, 1944, of which Michèle Vauchamps, the daughter of the couple who took him in, [...+]

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« We all fled to hide in the woods and spent a week there. »

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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.