“After the roundup”, the comic strip inspired by the life of Le Mans Jospeh Weismann is to be released in France on January 27. The book will be presented in preview this Wednesday (January 19) at 7:00 p.m. at the Abbaye de l’Epau. There will be a reading with the authors in the presence of Joseph Weismann.
Recall that Joseph Weismann, born June 19, 1931 in Paris. He is one of the few surviving children of the deportation following the roundup of the velodrome d’hiver in July 1942.
During this roundup, he and his whole family were taken to the Beaune-la-Rolande camp. Eleven years old, he manages to escape with a friend, Joseph Kogan. This is the story that the comic tells. The book also looks back on the post-war years and his meeting with Simone Veil.
– Christine Caillot
Joint work between the authors and Joseph Weismann
The authors Arnaud Delalande and Laurent Bidot met Joseph Weismann during a conference in a high school in Versailles. They immediately wanted to retrace his testimony in comics. The three men regularly worked together on images, texts and history. On the images, the manceau survivor of the camps wanted the barbed wire to appear very large and very linked. “It was not cow barbed wire,” underlines Joseph Weismann. it took us more than 6h00 to escape.
As for the story of his deportation, he also wanted there to be a part that also tells of life after the camps.
At over 90 years old, Joseph Weismann still continues to give conferences all over France and Europe.
A reading with the two authors and Joseph Weismann is scheduled for Wednesday January 19 at 7:00 p.m. at the Abbey of Epau.