Auschwitz, survivors tell their stories

They are among the very few survivors. 44 survivors testify. How do you get out of Auschwitz, how do you rebuild yourself? How do you talk about this ultimate experience and also how do you pass it on?

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First Aired

2025-01-27
Last Aired

2025-01-27
Creator

Catherine Bernstein
Genre

Documentary
Seasons

1
Episodes

5
Status

Ended
Language

Français
Network

France 2

Keywords:

holocaust (shoah) deportation holocaust (shoah) survivor jews seconde guerre mondiale

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Season 1

1. The persecution

How young women and men with their families find themselves, from one day to the next, excluded, hunte...More

How young women and men with their families find themselves, from one day to the next, excluded, hunted down, arrested throughout occupied Europe simply because they are Jewish, only to be deported far from home to one and the same place.Less

43mins 2025-01-27

2. The deportation

The deportees arrive at the camp. In the middle of the railway tracks, families are separated. Those w...More

The deportees arrive at the camp. In the middle of the railway tracks, families are separated. Those who enter the camp are shaved and then tattooed. The discovery of chimneys from which flames escape questions the new detainees. What is it about? Where have the elderly and children who were in the wagons gone?Less

41mins 2025-01-27

3. The camp

It is the discovery of the concentration camp universe: brutal forced labor, daily violence, hunger, t...More

It is the discovery of the concentration camp universe: brutal forced labor, daily violence, hunger, thirst, disease and omnipresent death. Everyone must find a way to survive.Less