15 December 2024 at 4pm at the Drancy Shoah Memorial
The last survivors of the Shoah are leaving us, but questions about the subject are returning thanks to the work of historians, concerns linked to current events, but also through encounters with objects from the past. Anne Berest, author of La Carte postale (The Postcard) and Marie de Lattre, author of La Promesse (The Promise), will share with the public how investigations enabled them to shed light on the dark areas of their family history during the Second World War. A look at the past helps us to better understand the present and the silences that are a heavy burden, but often necessary to ensure a will to go on when the weight of the past is sometimes impossible for survivors to confront.