Joseph
Obstfeld

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Joseph Obstfeld

Joseph was born in Amsterdam in 1937 to a Polish family. With danger rising, the family decided to split up and entrust Joseph to a resistance network which could protect him. Joseph was only 5 years old when he was placed on a farm. Too young to make a good helper, Joseph was sent back to the resistance network. They found him a new hiding place with a couple Piet and Ali, whom he had to call "tonton" and "tata". Joseph was renamed Jopie and had to be as discreet as possible in the house so as not to be discovered. [...+]

My visit to Joseph

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« I learnt to walk in the forest at night, without making the slightest noise. »

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« I had to hide in the basement, which was dark and damp, for hours on end. »

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« I didn't want to follow my father. I wanted to stay with the people who had been my family for three years. They were the only people I knew. »

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« Receiving this medal drew attention to the fact that they had done something normal in their eyes, and that bothered them. »

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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.