"Témoignages pour Mémoire" (Clip) (English Subtitles) | French, w/ English subtitles
(55 min.; Release Year: 2007)



"The people who touch you and who are touched by this problem, they can't handle it, at least that's been my experience.

And the others, those who can hear it, maybe they are indifferent, or less concerned?

Maybe it simply bores them, because they are not happy stories.

So when I give testimony, I finally sort through things and only tell those things which are interesting, exciting.

For example, I have always begun by describing my escape, because it's action, it's like a novel, it's an adventure film, heroic...

But to talk about the misery, tell of the martyrdom, you can only tell this to people who are concerned, and who have suffered in their flesh and in their families.

And those people have difficulty listening to you.

And when I see you Claudine, I see that sometimes you are suffering. I see your face and your expression changing.

So, somehow, I know that what I'm saying is true."

(Henri Borlant, Holocaust Survivor, "Témoignages pour Mémoire")


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"De leurs propres paroles, survivants de la Shoah Henri Borlant, Marcel Jabelot, et Violette Jacquet-Silberstein partagent leurs expériences de la déportation et de l'emprisonnement dans les camps de concentration pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Entretiens menés par Claudine Drame, Annette Wieviorka, Geneviève Decrop, et Régine Waintrater."


"In their own words, Holocaust survivors Henri Borlant, Marcel Jabelot, and Violette Jacquet-Silberstein share their experiences of deportation and incarceration in concentration camps during World War II. Interviews conducted by Claudine Drame, Annette Wieviorka, Geneviève Decrop, and Régine Waintrater."



** The feature-length documentary Témoignages pour Mémoire (2007) accompanied, in DVD format, the original publication of the award-winning historical work, "Des films pour le dire, reflets de la Shoah au cinéma, 1945-1985", by Claudine Drame (Les Éditions Métropolis, Prix Henri Hertz, 2007).



"Témoignages pour Mémoire" ("Testimony for Memory")

© 2007

Claudine Drame
(Productrice exécutive / Réalisatrice)

Yvonne Michele Anderson (Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham)
(Productrice (Director's Cut) / Traduction anglaise)

FIFET
The Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, French Division, Yale University
Les Éditions Métropolis