Title : The Little Girl from Ronce Passage - Esther Senot, Isabelle Ernot - book

Summary :

Promise me you will tell the world what men have been capable of doing to others." This was the hope expressed by Fanny a few hours before her murder in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Today, her younger sister Esther is keeping her promise.
In the 1930s, her family, fleeing Polish anti-Semitism, migrated to France and settled in Passage Ronce, a district of Belleville. This is where Esther grew up with her five brothers and sister, in this working-class neighborhood, with its markets, dusty streets, and shoemaker and tailor shops. A modest but happy existence that was turned upside down in May 1940. First came the arrest of her brother Marcel, then that of Samuel, who was sent to Drancy. The Vel d'Hiv roundup on July 16 and 17, 1942, was a devastating blow. Esther would never see her parents again. She took refuge with a guard, managed to reach the unoccupied zone, and returned to Paris, where she was finally arrested during an identity check and interned in the Drancy camp. Birkenau: Esther was shaved, tattooed, and assigned a barrack, a commando. Hell begins: forced labor, cold, promiscuity, beatings, disease, hunger. And death, everywhere.
Seventy-five years after the liberation of the camps, Esther continues to keep the memory of her family alive and to honor the promise she made to her sister. The Little Girl of the Ronce Passage is this story, but also a different historical and literary project. With the help of Isabelle Ernot, it opens like a diptych: the testimony is followed by a dialogue with the missing, by letters to her sister Fanny and her mother Gela, or even during a stroll on her school route between Ménilmontant and Belleville. The story constantly returns to this Ronce Passage, which has disappeared, and which now exists only here: in this stele of words, vivid and moving.

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