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FATHER DESBOIS'S LECTURE : HOLOCAUST BY BULLETS...

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You may watch an excerpt from Père Desbois's documentary film below:

PATRICK DESBOIS is a Catholic priest and President of Yahad – In Unum,
the leading research organization investigating the mass executions of
1.5 million Jews and Roma/Gypsy people in Eastern Europe between 1941
and 1944. Patrick Debois also serves as director of the Episcopal
Committee for Catholic-Judeo Relations, under the auspices of the
French Conference of Bishops. The grandson of a WWII French prisoner
held in the Rawa Ruska camp on the Poland-Ukraine border, he began in
2004 to research the story of the Jewish, Roma and other victims
murdered in Eastern Europe during WWII by the Nazi mobile killing
units, the Einsatzgruppen. Patrick Desbois has devoted his life to
researching the Holocaust, fighting anti-Semitism, and furthering
relations between Catholic and Jews. His work through Yahad has been
recognized through numerous awards and commentary in France and
internationally. To learn more about his project, you may visit his website:
http://www.holocaustbybullets.com

 

 

November 19, 2011 | New York | 6:00-8:30 pm

A FRENCH SHAME: INTERNMENT CAMPS IN FRANCE (1938-1946). A FILM BY JORGE AMAT & DENIS PESCHANSKI

(In collaboration with Cinema Studies, Skirball Center for New Media, Tisch School, NYU)

For those who have missed the screening, you can watch a few excerpts below.

Between November 1938 and May 1946, under the Vichy regime, but also before and after in a democratic regime, nearly 600,000 people were interned by administrative action in France, not for a crime they might have committed, but simply because they were supposed to represent a potential danger to the State or to society: Spanish Republicans, Germans and Austrians, French Communists, Jews who were added during the occupation and soon deported as part of the Final Solution or Gypsies and, at the Liberation, mainly citizens who were suspected of having collaborated as well as black marketeers and German civilians. Yet this story has remained hidden for decades, as if overshadowed by the collective memory.

Following the principle of the historian investigation, which was already used for "La Traque de l'Affiche rouge" and "Maréchal, nous voilà?", Denis Peschanski and Jorge Amat have reconstituted the puzzle through films, photographs, written records, objects, drawings and very moving testimonies, as many written or oral documents that have remained unpublished for the most.

A Compagnie des Phares et Balises production, co-producted by CNRS Images.

With the support of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, of the Département des Pyrénées-Orientales, the Ministère de la Défense, the CNC and the Procirep.

With the participation France Televisions, France 2 division.

Broadcast on France 2 on April 8, 2010

The screening was followed by a discussion with Denis PESCHANSKI (CNRS), Richard ALLEN (NYU), Edward BERENSON (NYU), Chistophe J. GODDARD (CNRS), Jack SAUL (Columbia).

LA FRANCE DES CAMPS 1938-1946 - Extrait 1 by Phares-Balises
LA FRANCE DES CAMPS 1938-1946 - Extrait 2 by Phares-Balises
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