From Wednesday 22 to Sunday 26 January 2020, France 24 commemorates the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Documentary filmmaker Sophie Nahum gave the floor to Holocaust survivors in a series of portraits broadcast all week on our antenna. Those who returned from the death camps recount their experience and their life according to: between pain that is impossible to forget, the guilt of the survivor and the need for transmission ... Through these portraits of approximately 8 minutes, a collective panorama takes shape. what the deportation was.

• Henri, the child of Polish immigrants

Henri, of Polish origin, was arrested in Angoulême with his family when he was only fifteen years old. He was sent to Drancy before being transferred to Kaunas, in Lithuania, in the convoy "73", along with 878 other people. Only 22 of them will return alive. The only survivor of this convoy 75 years later, he modestly evokes the guilt of those who survived the horror. A real "moral burden, heavy to bear".

• Lucette, the Parisian

Lucette, 93, has always lived in the Parisian district of Montmartre. Except during the Second World War, his family thinking of finding refuge in Lyon. Arrested with his father and mother, Lucette will not escape deportation and will be part of one of the last convoys from France to Auschwitz. To tell everything about this period seems impossible to him today as the pain remains sharp 75 years later. Especially at the mention of the deportation of his father or the reunion with his mother in 1945 when she "looked like a corpse". His fear today: anti-Semitism growing in French society.

• Nicolas, the writer

Born in Hungary, it is in Paris that Nicolas - 92 years old today - found refuge at the Liberation by finding his brother and his sister there. Before that, he survived Birkenau for seven months and the "death march" that followed. Beside his son, he evokes the weight of the transgenerational trauma that constitutes the horror of the Nazi death camps. "Can we tell everything? To what extent?" He asked himself at length. He finally made his choice when, decades later, he told his story in a book: "Being 16 in Auschwitz". His concern today: "Let it never happen to others, anyone," he says in a fit of nervousness.

• Esther, deported at 15

Born in Poland, Esther grew up in Paris, in the Belleville district, in a large family. Arrested during the Vél d'Hiv roundup, she was deported at fifteen to Auschwitz. She has a fixed idea: to come back alive. She manages to survive two winters in Birkenau and the "death marches". Despite everything, she is traumatized. When she recounts the years that followed her return to Paris, she remembers the disbelief and suspicion of the French population who "did not want to believe" what had happened. Still moved, she confides in years of wandering, isolated, without family, which ended in a suicide attempt. However, when she met her husband, she ended up rebuilding herself.

• Armand, from the Polish ghetto in Buchenwald

"I had a very long journey. I entered deportation on October 29, 1939," recalls Armand precisely. He was 10 years old when his Piotrkow district became the first in Poland to be transformed into a ghetto. Subsequently, he was deported to the Polish camp at Buchenwald. Haunted by nightmares long after the end of the war, he does not want to forget. If he has no photo of his family, he documented the ghetto during a trip to the places of his childhood in a photo album which serves as a support when he tells his story. Just like some sinister relics from the death camp he keeps to "remember". "People don't have to take our word for it," he said.

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