« In my “work of remembrance” I put all my effort, as we all should, into young people. To show them the horrors they could be lead to, as many of their forebears were. To show what happens when there is inaction in the face of injustice, exclusion and barbarity. In this ‘“work of remembrance” we must also remind young people that the executioners were ordinary people, just like any of us. So, we must be vigilant as to how we respond to others, so we do not in turn become their executioners. » 

Sam BRAUN

Items of interest

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Malka Braun talks about the murder of Mireille Knoll on the Le Parisien website

Malka Braun is speaking on Le Parisien TV at the time when there was a Marche Blanche*  in memory of Mireille Knoll, the victim of an anti-Semitic murder on 2 March 2018.

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Georges Horan-Koiransky, an eyewitness to Drancy

In his Journal d’un interné (Diary of an internee), Georges Horan-Koiransky brings alive his imprisonment at Drancy. Arrested on 11 July 1942, he was freed on 13 March 1943. For the 8 months of his detention he felt compelled to take notes and to make drawings to describe what he was going through.

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