Shoah Generations Forum 2021: 3rd workshop – Returned objects
May 26, 2021
The organising committee invites you to take part in the Shoah Generations Forum on Zoom, on the theme of returned objects, on Tuesday, June 8, 2021 at 6 p.m.
We have so much to say and show about these special objects, survivors of a vanished world, that we have decided to give them a voice once again. Objects of memory, of history or of museums, they are part of our daily lives, and yet they are different. They carry within them the memory of the Shoah, a memory we cannot shake off.
The main theme of this third workshop will be objects, previously unknown in our families, that we have found again. They are charged with our parents’ history, and we are now their custodians. To talk about them, witnesses representing four generations will speak, accompanied by the Judaeo-Spanish songs of Sandra Bessis.
Programme
Opening: Laurence Klejman (Convoy 77 Association) with Lior Lalieu-Smadja (Mémorial de la Shoah)
In the waiting room from 5.30 p.m.: a few extracts from Ludovic Cantais’s film “J’aimerais qu’il reste quelque chose”
Claude Ungar, represented by his daughter Carole: the portrait of Léon and his mother, accompanied by Bernard Flam (Centre Medem)
Ilana Borycki with her father Alexandre (Memories of Convoy 6 and the Loiret camps) and her grandmother Renée: the Shabbat candles, accompanied by Roselyne Bloch (volunteer at the Mémorial de la Shoah)
Annette Gutnic Swierczewski: the watch that was found, accompanied by Suzon Pikorki (AACCE)
Mitia Aptekier-Gielibter and Laurence Aptekier-Fisbein: the cards sent from Auschwitz by Marcel (Mendel) Aptekier to his mother Bajla Aptekier, in the presence of Karen Taieb, head of archives at the Mémorial de la Shoah and author of the book Les lettres d’Auschwitz, accompanied by Nathalie Zajde (Centre Georges Devereux)
Evening hosted by Martine Jacobster Morcel (Liberté du Judaïsme) and Galith Touati (L’Enfant et la Shoah – Yad Layeled France).
The Shoah Generations Forum is a time of sharing and friendship, of listening and exchange. It brings together Shoah survivors, hidden children, Jewish fighters and all their descendants, associations dedicated to the memory of the victims and of the fighters, and the Righteous of France and their descendants. The Shoah Generations Forum brings all the generations together around shared interests, to help them look at the past, move towards the future, renew old friendships and make new ones, work on passing on, preserve the memory of the Shoah and continue the fight against antisemitism and oblivion.
Registration required at forumgenerations@memorialdelashoah.org to receive the Zoom link.
For information: forumgenerations@memorialdelashoah.org. Mémorial de la Shoah tel.: +33 1 42 77 44 72