The Orphans of the Shoah of Montmorency

The Orphans of the Shoah of Montmorency

by José AINOUZ

94 minutes - 2008


Avant première presse au mémorial le 17 janvier 2011
17, rue Geoffroy-l’Asnier 75004 Paris

Première diffusion à Montmorency le 30 janvier 2011
salle municipale

6o years after the genocide, the orphans of the Shoah testify. They all lived in Montmorency between 1938 and 1940 and between 1945 and 1960. A few lived in the Helvetia House and the others in Renouveau. For the longest time, they refused to speak, to express their anger against a society that subjected them to such unspeakable horror. Today, they narrate their secret childhoods, the separation and the dispatching of their parents to death camps...their stay in foster homes...

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