20 October from 2pm
In the presence of journalist Didier Epelbaum and historian Renée Poznanski, journalist Edouardo Castillo will lead a discussion on the period 1944-1947, which saw the closure of the Drancy camp following the Liberation of France. He recalled the zealous massacres carried out by the camp’s administrators before the arrival of the Allies, and the flight of its commandant, who took 51 Jewish hostages with him on 17 August 1944. A second meeting with historian Olivier Lalieu and historian Annette Wieviorka will look at the construction of the memory of the Drancy camp, driven by associations and institutions.