It seemed to re-use many of the sets from La Rafle, particularly the Velodrome.
Andrew Fildes
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> On 7 Dec 2015, at 2:04 am, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I recently watched the movie "Sarah's Key" and understood more about the
> internment and deportation of French Jews. The movie was more than good
> enough to warrant purchasing a DVD.
>
> Chris
>
>>
>> As some of you know, the Wajsman clan has a branch in France (and a branch
>> of that branch in Brussels). Actually, it was the first part of the family
>> that emigrated from Eastern Poland, when Shmuel Wajsman left Lublin for
>> Paris in 1920 in seach of a better life. He settled in to a working class
>> existence in Paris and had three children, one of whom was Joseph, who is
>> not technically my uncle (I think the correct term is granduncle or some
>> such, but is totally immaterial—he is simply “mon vieux oncle” when we
>> speak). Joseph was born in 1930, and in 1942, like most other French Jews,
>> he and his family were rounded up and sent to a transit camp, from where
>> most were sent on to Auschwitz and perished there. But Joseph managed to
>> escape the camp with a friend and was hidden by villagers in the Loire
>> valley during the remainder of the war. He later settled in Le Mans where he
>> lives to this day in an old house in the centre with a great wine cellar. In
>> 2010, the story of his capture and escape in 1942 was made into a movie, La
>> Rafle, the premiere of which I had the pleasure to attend at a theatre on
>> Champs Elysées in March of that year (the English title is The Roundup).
>>
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