One day, in Savigny, an 18-year-old boy left his house in the middle of the war, saying: "I'm leaving, I'm going to kill Hitler." His name was Joseph, he was Jewish, he was my great-uncle. He disappeared during the night of the Occupation, and his existence became a family secret. He disappeared from history, the small as well as the big: he is not on any deportation list, and the only archive where he appears is a family photo of him as a child. It disappeared like a stone at the bottom of the water, instead of going up in smoke in the sky of Poland. What did he become? And why didn't anyone mention his name anymore?
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Squawk, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, CNC, Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
Keywords
- world war ii
- deportation
- biography
- disappearance
- family
- war souvenir
- war trauma
- war child
- war buddies
- self-portrait
- war documentary
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Top Crew
Pauline Horovitz · Director
Gwénola Héaulme · Editor
Juliette Guigon · Producer
Patrick Winocour · Producer
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