TESTIMONIES AND REPAIRING THE HARM DONE

Meeting with hidden children

On 2 September 1945, the Second World War officially came to an end

The year 2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the landings, the Liberation of France and, in some cases, the reunion with surviving parents who were either hidden or deported. For many, this reunion was a new trauma

One and a half million European Jewish children perished during the Holocaust. Between 6% and 11% survived because they were hidden. Of the 72,000 Jewish children living in France in 1939, it is estimated that more than 11,000 were murdered in the camps. Just over 60,000 survived. They escaped deportation with their families or were hidden

Some parents decided to separate from their children to give them a better chance of surviving and to give themselves more freedom to hide. These separations were tragic for several reasons. Children, who were protected and loved by their parents and siblings, found themselves separated from their loved ones from one day to the next, and were torn apart emotionally. And the children of Jewish emigrants found themselves suddenly not only separated from their parents, but plunged into an unknown, totally foreign world

For the children in hiding, the war was not over at the Liberation. They live with the memory of their missing parents and their stolen childhood

The Institut français in Jerusalem is giving the floor to Gaby Hochman and Betty Eppel. Both will give their personal accounts and discuss with Dr Jocelyn Hattab the possibility or impossibility of reparation

MONDAY 28 APRIL

AT 6.30PM

With the participation of Dr Jocelyn Hattab, psychiatrist and psychoanalyst

 

 

 

 

 

Trained at the Hôpital Sainte Anne, Jocelyn Hattab is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. He practised as a senior physician in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Hebrew University Medical School

Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem. He is also an active member of the Schibboleth-Actualité of Freud Association

It is recommended to reserve: ifjromaingary@gmail.com

or by telephone: 02-624 31 56

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