A brouhaha.
Laughter sometimes a little nervous.
Whispers.
When Ginette Kolinka arrives on the stage of the conservatory of the 12th arrondissement of Paris, the third year students of the Jules-Verne high school are a little agitated.
Normal: they have been waiting for the former deportee for some time now.
And then, even though they have just been studying World War II in class and have been asked to read the latest book she has just written with Marion Ruggieri - whose title,
A Happy Life
(Grasset), slaps like a snub -, this Friday February 17 is the day before the school holidays… Some people already have their minds elsewhere.
Sitting behind a small table, next to the teacher who went to fetch her from her home, "Ginette" calmly classifies her work "material": her personal photos and other documents that she takes with her on each of her trips to France.
From the height of her 98 years, in sweater, pants and golden earrings, Ginette Kolinka, who has long…
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