Workshop “The Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup (1942)”

The biography of Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard « Chassez les papillons noirs » (2011)

Age group: 14 years – … (adaptable, also for adults)

Working materials (inter alia):

• Extracts from the biography Chassez les papillons noirs (2011) of Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard
• Video-Interview with the Holocaust survivor Joseph Weismann, on whose life-story the movie The Round up (La Rafle, 2010) by Roselyne Bosch is based
• Excerpts from the documentary film Ich bin (2011) by André Bossuroy, sponsored by the European Commission (programme “Active European remembrance”) and the Foundation Hippocrène
• Chassez les papillons noirs (2011): Illustration by Roman Kroke
• historic photos – current photos from Paris and Poland (historical locations; memorial sites)
• the metaphors of the BUTTERFLY  and the SHADDOW
• Music (Edith Piaf, Django Reinhardt, Beethoven, Duke Ellington)
• photos of students’ artworks created in previous workshops