Lucette
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Lucette Gejzenblozen

Lucette was born in Paris in 1924, a stone's throw from the Sacré-Cœur. Her parents came from Poland and she had a sister, Sarah, just two years her senior. During the war, her father, a renowned decorator, took his family to take refuge in Lyon, where he quickly found work. His twin brother came to join them after his wife and four of his children were arrested, none of whom ever returned. He died of grief. Lucette had just turned twenty when she too was arrested, along with her parents. Sarah, [...+]

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« She had the smell of the camp, it smelled of rotten fish, even the water there smelled of rotten fish. »

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« They told me "You still have a beautiful human face, you might have a chance. We don't." »

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« I got the shock of my life when I saw Mom, she was a skeleton. »

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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.