The documentary "Colette", which tells the story of Colette Marin-Catherine, 93, who returns to the scene of the death of her brother deported in 1943 by the Gestapo, is nominated for the Oscars on Sunday, in the category "best short documentary footage ".

In Caen, the nonagenarian received Europe 1 to tell her story. 

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From Caen to Los Angeles.

Colette Marin-Catherine is 93 years old.

A former resistance fighter during the Second World War, at that time she lost her brother Jean-Pierre, arrested by the Gestapo and then deported in 1943. He died two years later in a German concentration camp.

For the first time, 74 years after the tragedy, Colette went to Germany, to the scene of her death.

A painful pilgrimage, told in a documentary

Colette

, directed by Anthony Giachhino and Alice Doyard.

The film is nominated for the Oscars, whose ceremony takes place on Sunday, in the category "best short documentary". 

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"When he had decided to go through a wall, too bad for the wall"

For Europe 1, Colette Marin-Catherine agreed to tell her story.

A photo of Jean-Pierre in his hands, it testifies to this brother who disappeared in the Dora camp, two years after his deportation.

"Look at this handsome guy, there he was 14 years old. He was really brilliant, very strong willed. When he had decided to cross a wall, too bad for the wall", she remembers.

"It took me thirty or forty years to forget. All that awakened memories in me was the documentary. I knew very well that I would not be myself as soon as I crossed the German border. And it's true, ”she says.

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"When you tell about the deportation, the words fly away. But when you touched the crematorium door, you don't forget it. I put flowers right where he died."

"I'm not used to blowing higher than my windmill"

The documentary tells the story of Colette Marin-Catherine, accompanied by Lucie Fouble, 17, aspiring historian.

Together, they visit the hell of Dora camp, where inmates had to assemble V2 rockets in an underground factory.

On Sunday, the film will face off against four other films at the prestigious award ceremony.

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"I'm really amazed at the importance of the film. I'm not used to blowing higher than my mill," jokes the retiree. "I have been in Caen in my HLM for 31 years. Oscar or not, that will not change my existence. I am especially really happy that the memory of Jean-Pierre has been awakened."