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Shoah: meeting with Ginette Kolinka, survivor and transmitter of memory
Shoah: meeting with Ginette Kolinka, survivor and transmitter of memory – (France 2)
Ginette Kolinka was arrested by the Gestapo and deported to the death camps in March 1944. A comic strip traces her story. Meeting at the Shoah Memorial in Drancy (Seine-Saint-Denis).
The step is uncertain, but the look is always lively. Ginette Kolinka is now 98 years old. Passerby of memory, she tirelessly shares her story, that of a young Jewish girl, 19 years old, survivor of the Auschwitz camp. “I’m digging ditches, I’m making roads, we were in filth, there was nothing to disinfect”says Ginette Kolinka.
“I had a happy life”
“I no longer pity anyone, I too have lived outside”, she continues. For this woman, testifying is important: “We must be careful not to hate others and religions, this is what often leads to war”she says before continuing: “I’ve had a happy life and I wish you the same, I don’t see why I wouldn’t be optimistic.”