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Weimar (dpa / th) - The short documentary film "Colette", which accompanies the 90-year-old French woman Colette Marin-Catherine on her visit to the Mittelbau-Dora memorial, received an Oscar on Monday night.
Her brother Jean-Pierre Catherine died in March 1945 in the former Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp in Nordhausen as a result of murderous forced labor.
"The Oscar award not only pays tribute to the fate of the siblings Colette and Jean-Pierre Catherine, but also to the tens of thousands of other resistance fighters across Europe who were deported to the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp," said the director of the Buchenwald and Mittelbau Memorials Foundation -Dora, Jens-Christian Wagner.
According to the foundation, the film by Alice Doyard and Anthony Giacchino was awarded the coveted film prize on the 93rd birthday of the resistance fighter and protagonist at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony.
"Thousands died there while doing forced labor for armaments projects that were supposed to bring the Nazis the" final victory ".
The moving film is a monument to you and the people from whom your brothers, fathers and husbands were taken, ”said Wagner.
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