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Shoah: “Finding Estelle [Moufflarge]it was also offering it to others”, assures Bastien François, author of a book on the young deportee
Bastien François, professor of constitutional law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and author of “Finding Estelle Moufflarge, in the footsteps of a teenage victim of the Shoah”, published by Gallimard, is the guest of 12/13 info, Saturday 27 January. He presents the young deportee, whose story he tells. – (franceinfo)
Bastien François, professor of constitutional law at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and author of “Finding Estelle Moufflarge, in the footsteps of a teenage victim of the Shoah”, published by Gallimard, is the guest of 12/13 info, Saturday January 27 . He presents the young deportee, whose story he tells.
Finding Estelle Moufflarge, in the footsteps of a teenage victim of the Shoah, published by Gallimard, is the result of a ten-year investigation. This young Jewish high school student was deported to Auschwitz (Poland) in 1943. The author of the book, Bastien François, says he learned of Estelle’s existence “quite by chance”by typing his address on a website. “Without me realizing it, she came into my life. I tried to find information on the internet, there was nothing. (…) An orphaned teenager, coming from a working class background, with in addition, over the Shoah (…) it eradicates all memories”he explains.
Out of oblivion
What remains of Estelle Moufflarge today? “For me, I found her. I have the impression of knowing Estelle quite intimately”assures Bastien François, who says he has notably “reconstructed its entire environment” and know his family, before adding: “Then finding Estelle also meant offering it to others.” Estelle’s brother was also deported, but “as part of the resistance”, specifies the author. His work also tells “the xenophobic and anti-Semitic atmosphere of the 1930s”which he describes as“absolutely unheard of”or the zeal of the French administration to file the Jews.
