On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz camp, and to continue the encounters begun in January, join us for two events on Sunday February 16, 2025 with Ginette Kolinka at the Mémorial de la Shoah in Drancy.
Event in French only
2:30pm: Screening of the documentary Les filles de Birkenau by David Teboul (France, documentary, 1h10, 2024)
What remains 80 years after surviving the hell of Auschwitz? Is it easier to speak out among those who share the same experience?
David Teboul brought together four of the last French survivors of the death camps: Judith Elkan, Ginette Kolinka, Esther Senot and Isabelle Choko. This film retraces their journey... the "Birkenau girls".
With the support of the Fondation pour la mémoire de la Shoah.
4pm: Exceptional testimony by Shoah survivor Ginette Kolinka
Ginette Kolinka was born Cherkasky in Paris in 1925. In the summer of 1942, her family clandestinely crossed the demarcation line and settled in Avignon. Ginette Kolinka was arrested in March 1944 and deported on convoy 71 to Auschwitz Birkenau. At the end of October 1944, she was transferred to Bergen-Belsen, then to Terezin, before a difficult return to France. Ginette Kolinka is one of the last survivors of the Holocaust to bear witness, to tell her story to young people, to everyone. In February 2025, she will celebrate her 100th birthday! This afternoon, February 16, 2025, is dedicated to her.
From October 1, 2023 to Sunday, January 28, 2024, the Drancy Shoah Memorial presents an exhibition on Ginette Kolinka, "Itinéraire d'une survivante d'Auschwitz" ("Itinerary of an Auschwitz survivor").
Copyright : Mémorial de la Shoah - visual of the exhibition dedicated to Ginette Kolinka in 2023/2024
Read more: War memorial sites in Seine-Saint-Denis
tel : 01 42 77 44 72 
Getting there
Jean Rostand
Le Bourget
Gratuit 
