Lecture de textes par des jeunes de la commune
en mémoire d'Arlette Fathi intervention de jeunes de la commune
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00:00Between 1940 and 1944, 322 Jews were arrested in the Netherlands.
00:06Some of them were arrested while trying to preserve their markings.
00:10Others were arrested during raids against our factions,
00:12such as the lack of identity documents.
00:14Then, they were sent to the prisons of Drax, Mont-de-Marsan or Bayonne,
00:19then to camps such as Puy-de-Mirignac and Drancy before being deported to France.
00:25The Jewish children were deported during the war,
00:27and half of them were deported during the war.
00:30Among them, there were about 30 children from the Netherlands,
00:36often arrested with their families while trying to preserve their markings.
00:40These children were sent to concentration camps.
00:43Many heard about the case of Arlette Fary.
00:50Arlette Fary was born on September 17, 1932,
00:53daughter of Charles V, Paris XVI.
00:56Daughter of Léon and Légion, a Jewish merchant from Turkey,
01:00she obtained French citizenship in 1938.
01:03In 1940, she was persecuted by anti-Semites.
01:07Her family took refuge in Mimisan-Plage.
01:09Despite their efforts to prevent the arrest,
01:11they were expelled from Mimisan in 1942.
01:14On December 21, 1943, Arlette and her family were arrested in Bordeaux
01:19during a raid led by French police officers.
01:23Arlette, aged only 11, and her mother are interned in the camp of Mirignac,
01:27joined by Léon the next day.
01:29The Turkish nationality, which could have protected them in theory,
01:33could not prevent their arrest because of the bureaucratic delay
01:37to renew their nationality certificate.
01:40The family was transferred to Drancy camp on December 30, 1943.
01:44The desperate steps of the Turkish authorities to save them remain unfulfilled.
01:49Finally, on January 20, 1944, Arlette, along with her parents,
01:53is deported to Auschwitz.
01:55Upon their arrival on January 23, 1944,
01:58Arlette, only 11 years old, is immediately assassinated.
02:02Arlette Fary, a young girl full of life,
02:05is a symbol of a life broken by barbarism.
02:08Her story, like that of so many other children,
02:11reminds us of the importance of memory and vigilance
02:14in the face of violence and hatred.
02:17Today, we place a commemorative plaque
02:21on the primary school where Arlette Fary studied
02:24to honor her memory and remember the horrors
02:27suffered by so many children during the war.
02:32This tribute is made by reading the testimony of Jeannette Kolinka,
02:35who evokes the suffering and sadness experienced during the deportation
02:38in her book Back to Birkenau.
02:40Everything changed for me on March 13, 1944.
02:44I had lunch with us and I found three men
02:47wearing leather coats, and when I saw them,
02:50I immediately understood that they were the Gestapo.
02:52We had fake papers and denied to be Jewish,
02:55but they forced us to undress to verify.
02:57My father, my little brother and I were taken immediately.
03:01After a passage through the prison in Avignon
03:04and to the IBOMET in Marseille,
03:06we were transferred to Drancy,
03:08where we were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau
03:10in cattle wagons.
03:12The journey lasted three days and three nights.
03:14We were packed like animals,
03:16without food and water.
03:18The smell was unbearable.
03:20When we arrived, we were separated.
03:22My father and my brother were sent directly
03:24to the gas chamber.
03:26I never saw them again.
03:28In the camp, I discovered what was really hell.
03:30We were shaved, tattooed, humiliated.
03:33We were treated like nothing.
03:35I remember the smell of crematoriums,
03:37the burnt flesh that permeated the air constantly.
03:40We were hungry, exhausted and constantly mistreated.
03:45It was 3.30 a.m. and we worked until 6 p.m.
03:49We lived in unimaginable conditions.
03:52Six people shared a bed.
03:54We only had a glass of water in the morning,
03:56a slice of bread and a little margarine per day.
03:59Every day was a struggle to survive.
04:01The weakest were sent to the gas chamber.
04:03I saw so many people die,
04:05so much suffering around me.
04:07Yet I survived.
04:09I don't know how, but I survived.
04:11After the liberation, I discovered
04:13that my mother and my nephew had also died.
04:16The war had taken everything from me,
04:18but I had to continue to live
04:20to testify, to never forget.