Francine Christophe, always testify

She sings.

A cappella.

A tall 87 year old child.

"In this department, there is therefore a camp / A camp of poor Jews, all more dead than alive ah ah ah / Ohé, in the camp of Beaune-la-Rolande / Ohé, in the camp of the poor wandering Jews / Tra la la la. ”

Francine Christophe hums.

Then slips with humor that she had

"a lot of talent"

for a child imprisoned in 1942 with her mother because they were Jewish.

She adds:

“This song, I wrote it on a yellowish piece of paper - war paper - which was then given to my grandmother and now rests here at the Shoah Memorial.”

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It is a relic, a fragment of history which reveals, through the intimacy of a captive child's song, what the genocide of the Jews was during the Second World War.

A tragedy of which this elegant grandmother is today one of the last witnesses.

From the Parisian raids to the liberation by the Soviets via the concentration camps, and shortly before January 27,

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