Inauguration plaque commémorative Arlette Farhi
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00:00of the children in the Langues d'Angles.
00:15Ladies and gentlemen of the Pedagogical Centre for Resistance and the Deportation of the
00:21Langues d'Angles.
00:22Ladies and gentlemen of the Association of Fighters.
00:27Ladies and gentlemen of the elected representatives.
00:29Ladies and gentlemen of the teachers of schools and colleges.
00:33Dear schoolchildren and schoolchildren.
00:36Ladies and gentlemen.
00:38It is with a deep emotion that we meet this day in front of this school of 1,100 pages
00:45in order to unveil the plaque commemorative in honor of the memory of Alette Paris who
00:54was schooled in these walls from 1940 to 1942 and whose tragic fate will be retraced
01:02later by Mr. Carpon.
01:06Her childhood was stolen by Nazi barbarism.
01:10Murdered with her parents in Auschwitz in January 1944 when she was only 12 years old
01:17and immediately lives in front of her.
01:21We must today retrace this tragedy with precision and unveil this plaque.
01:27It is thanks to the work of many historians, in particular those of the Pedagogical Centre
01:33for Resistance and the Deportation of the Langues d'Angles, whose remarkable research
01:38has allowed us to find the trace of many Jewish children deported from our Department
01:44of the Langues d'Angles.
01:46The period that we are going through requires neutrality in our words.
01:51This must not prevent us from saying the rejection that we need to have at all times
01:59and everywhere of the hateful and xenophobic discourses that could invade the public space.
02:05Today, in 2024, there are only a few living witnesses of this dramatic period in our history.
02:15I invite you to listen to the interventions of Ginette Kolenka and Marie Wesley,
02:22interventions that are born of a deep humanity that gives us some hope for our future.
02:31The work of memory that we want to drive for our half-timbered city,
02:36work for which we thank the teachers for their contribution,
02:41will not stop at this ceremony.
02:45We are gathered at this moment in the rue de la Poste.
02:49And if the horror evoked with the deportation of Arlette Fary must not leave our memories,
02:55it must be remembered that a few hundred meters from here,
02:59at the end of this street, at the Colony of the Pylône,
03:04with the intervention and protection of Christian Kolm and a few people from our community,
03:11Jewish children will be able to escape the barbarism that marked the last century.
03:17We will also need to have a dedicated time to rename this primordial episode of our local history.
03:25Your memory, our memory, are essential,
03:30because there is no work of memory without transmission to the young generation.
03:36You are our best rampart against obscurantism and barbarism.
03:41I thank you and we will lay a grass in tribute to all Jewish children and murderers.