- Summary
- "In the summer of 1943, thousands of Jewish refugees in Italian-occupied southern France enjoyed a rare respite from persecution, protected by an unusual force: the occupying Italian Army, who temporarily shielded local and foreign Jews despite pressure from the Germans and the French Vichy administration. In one Alpine village, Saint Martin Véstubie, life was, briefly, renewed as Jews attended synagogues, schools andcafes, and Yiddish was heard as often as French. With the invasion of Nazi troops in September the lull was broken and most of the Jews were deported. Veteran French filmmaker André Waksman, whose family survived the Holocaust in southern France, reconstructs this little known World War II history."--Container.
- Variant Title
- 1943 Le temps d'un répit
- Format
- Video
- Published
- [France] : [André Waksman], [2009?]
- Locale
- France
Saint-Martin-Vésubie
- Other Authors/Editors
- Waksman, André, film director, screenwriter, film producer.
Bedei, Elena, screenwriter.
Monkey Bay Productions, production company.
- Notes
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Originally produced in France as a motion picture and released in 2009.
Producer and director, André Waksman; written by André Waksman, Elena Bedei, editor, Bruno Maruani; camera, Didier Magnan and 8 others
English, French and Italian with English subtitles.
USHMM Library c. 1 received from André Waksman.
