Children of Drancy "Children will be deported"

A play performed in Fall 2007 is a "montage of voices" about the deportation of over 76,000 Jews from the camp of Drancy, outside Paris including 11,400 children, during the Nazi era. Edited by Cinema Studies major Garret Roosa
This scene dramatizes the policies against Jews during the German occupation of France, as promulgated by the Vichy regime and by the German occupying forces




From the play Children of Drancy by © Inez Hedges
Adapted for the stage and directed by Nancy Kindelan at Northeastern University in October 2007
Video directed by Ronald J. Starr
Camera: Phil Bidlack, Gabriela Maestre, Garret Roosa, Elizabeth Stenger
Edited by Garret Roosa
Actors (in order of speaking): Ahmad Maksoud, Paul Dranginis, Kate Rakowski
Text adapted with permission from Serge Klarsfeld, La Shoah en France, 4 vols. (Paris: Fayard, 2001); and Georges Wellers, De Drancy à Auschwitz (Paris: Editions du Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine, 1946).

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[1stavropol]

This is fantastic.

Bravo.

France's shame and dark page in history well presented.

Jean Francois Leclerc