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L'inconnue française : la France et les Belges francophones (1944-1945)
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ISSN: 20303688 ISBN: 9789052013978 9052013977 Year: 2008 Volume: 1 Publisher: Bruxelles Lang

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L'imaginaire collectif réserve une place particulière à la « France éternelle », fer de lance de la civilisation européenne, fière de l'héritage de son passé royal comme des "principes de 89". Le devenir, le rôle voire la mission de la "France nouvelle", celle du rédempteur de Gaulle, font débat en 1944-1945. Dans une Europe en ruines, elle est l'inconnue de l'heure dont le futur peut être fait du meilleur comme du pire. À la fois proches et différents, les francophones de Belgique, pétris de la même culture, oscillent à son égard entre amour et haine, entre la proclamation d'une parenté spirituelle, sinon ethnique, et le souci d'affirmer une identité propre, la future « belgitude ». Pour eux aussi, la période 1944-1945, entre les stigmates de la guerre et les déchirements de la question royale, n'est qu'une suite d'interrogations. Quel regard portent-ils sur la France ? Comment vivent-ils l'hiatus entre une "France nouvelle", souvent mythifiée, et la France réelle, qui peine à se redresser et à se positionner de nouveau en grande puissance ? Enfin, quelles sont les actions menées par Paris, notamment sur le plan culturel, pour reconquérir en Belgique le terrain perdu depuis 1940 et affronter au mieux une concurrence anglo-américaine inédite ?

Crises of memory and the second world war
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ISBN: 0674022068 9780674022065 Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, MA London : Harvard University Press,

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How we view ourselves and how we wish to be seen by others cannot be separated from the stories we tell about our past. In this sense all memory is in crisis, torn between conflicting motives of historical reflection, political expediency, and personal or collective imagination. In Crises of Memory and the Second World War, Susan Suleiman conducts a profound exploration of contested terrain, where individual memories converge with public remembrance of traumatic events. Suleiman is one of a handful of scholars who have shaped the interdisciplinary study of memory, with its related concepts of trauma, testimony, forgetting, and forgiveness. In this book she argues that memories of World War II, while nationally specific, transcend national boundaries, due not only to the global nature of the war but also to the increasingly global presence of the Holocaust as a site of collective memory. Among the works she discusses are Jean-Paul Sartre’s essays on the occupation and Resistance in France; Marcel Ophuls’ innovative documentary on Klaus Barbie, tried for crimes against humanity; István Szabó’s film Sunshine, a chronicle of Jewish identity in central Europe; literary memoirs by Jorge Semprun and Elie Wiesel; and experimental writing by child survivors of the Holocaust.

Hidden children of the Holocaust: Belgian nuns and their daring rescue of young Jews from the Nazis
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ISBN: 9780195181289 019518128X 1435652851 9786612402791 0199720533 128240279X 1281851477 9786611851477 0199739056 0199870756 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, N.Y. Oxford University Press

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In the terrifying summer of 1942 in Belgium, when the Nazis began the brutal roundup of Jewish families, parents searched desperately for safe haven for their children. As Suzanne Vromen reveals in Hidden Children of the Holocaust, these children found sanctuary with other families and schools--but especially in Roman Catholic convents and orphanages. Vromen has interviewed not only those who were hidden as children, but also the Christian women who rescued them, and the nuns who gave the children shelter, all of whose voices are heard in this powerfully moving book. Indeed, here are numerous first-hand memoirs of life in a wartime convent--the secrecy, the humor, the admiration, the anger, the deprivation, the cruelty, and the kindness--all with the backdrop of the terror of the Nazi occupation. We read the stories of the women of the Resistance who risked their lives in placing Jewish children in the care of the Church, and of the Mothers Superior and nuns who sheltered these children and hid their identity from the authorities. Perhaps most riveting are the stories told by the children themselves--abruptly separated from distraught parents and given new names, the children were brought to the convents with a sense of urgency, sometimes under the cover of darkness. They were plunged into a new life, different from anything they had ever known, and expected to adapt seamlessly. Vromen shows that some adapted so well that they converted to Catholicism, at times to fit in amid the daily prayers and rituals, but often because the Church appealed to them. Vromen also examines their lives after the war, how they faced the devastating loss of parents to the Holocaust, struggled to regain their identities and sought to memorialize those who saved them. This remarkable book offers an inspiring chronicle of the brave individuals who risked everything to protect innocent young strangers, as well as a riveting account of the "hidden children" who lived to tell their st

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