“It’s a real race for time”: Holocaust witnesses write before it’s too late

He didn't expect to run the TV sets, from “Quotidien” on TMC to “28 Minutes” on Arte, at 87 years old.

He laughs about it, reminds us, cuts away, too many requests at the same time but a cry from the heart: “Testifying is essential.

Until the end.

» Samuel Pintel, evacuated from the house in Izieu, in the Ain mountains, before the roundup organized by Klaus Barbie in April 1944, continues the interviews.

His book “l'Enfant d'Izieu” (HarperCollins, 208 p., 19.90 euros), released on March 20, is a poignant testimony from a 6-year-old boy who had to let go of his mother's hand in Annecy, during of a raid, to take that of an unknown woman helping him to hide, is all the more moving since the octogenarian has seen several of his comrades from the winter of 1943-1944, then teenagers, leave in recent years.

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