After four days of commemoration, the highlight of the show. Operation “Moselle uprooted”, dedicated to the evacuation and expulsion of the Moselle people between 1939 and 1945 ended with the show “1939 – Suddenly we left…” at the Galaxie d’Amnéville. 4,000 people came this Saturday and Sunday to attend this great historical fresco orchestrated by Jacky Locks and directed by Damien Blanchot.
Several hundred singers, and Isabelle Boulay
In this production, a grandmother played by Florence Monge tells her granddaughter, Madeleine, played by Gloria of Kids United, how she left her native Moselle as a child after France entered the war against France. ‘Germany.
The account of his departure on a train and his difficulties adjusting to his new school were set to music by the Orchester symphonique du choir regional de Lorraine, and performed by a choir made up of several hundred choristers.
Singer Isabelle Boulay, also lent his voice to three songs.
– Jules Hauss
We rediscovered the stories that our parents and grandparents told us
The show also paid tribute to the minors enlisted to work and to the soldiers who left as heroes, before staging France, which finds itself at the end of the conflict.
Without looking at each other members of the public spontaneously stood up to sing La Marseillaise with the choir.
Among them, Martine, very moved by this staging. His parents themselves told him about their uprooting during the war. “My mother had left on a train without knowing where she was going … The songs, the staging brought up a lot of feelings. We found the stories that our parents and grandparents told us.”
The audience jumped up again as the European anthem rang out at the end of the show. Before starting a long sequence of applause for all the artists present on the stage.