Joseph
Weisman

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Joseph Weisman

Joseph was born in 1931 into a very modest Polish family. He grew up in the Abbesses district, where there were no Jews. On July 16, 1942, Joseph, his two sisters and their parents were arrested and taken to the Vél' d'Hiv, then to Beaune-la-Rolande. On the day he and his family were to be deported, he and dozens of other children were taken from the ranks and torn away from their parents with unseen violence. It was the last time he saw his father, mother and sisters. Left alone in the camp, [...+]

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« We crawled under the barbed wires for hours. »

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« I was wearing a yellow star. I felt like everyone was staring at me. I was so ashamed. »

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« We were separated from our parents. The children screamed terribly »

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« At the Vel' d'Hiv, I put myself in a bubble. »

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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.