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Article, 27.11.2017
On the occasion of the second plenary meeting under Swiss chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on 27th November 2017, the translation of all the 15 memoirs of Holocaust survivors into French has been completed.
On the occasion of the first IHRA plenary meeting under Swiss chairmanship in Geneva, 5 volumes – translated by students from two gymnasiums in Geneva and Bienne – were presented. They worked for many months to translate the Memoirs of the Holocaust survivors who live in Switzerland – originally published in German by the “Kontaktstelle für Holocaust Überlebende in der Schweiz”. These translations also created an opportunity for dialogue between survivors and students.
The translation of the remaining 10 volumes was accomplished by committed translators. Thus, the translation of the series is accomplished. The publication of a special edition “Passeurs de mémoires” collecting the different impressions of this translation work completes this project.
All fifteen volumes of these Memoirs were published in German between 2010 and 2014 with the support of the FDFA. On 27th January 2015, the memoirs were presented to the President of the Swiss Confederation for 2015, Simonetta Sommaruga. Within the context of the Swiss chairmanship of the IHRA, the FDFA took the initiative to translate them into another national language.
All translated volumes, including the five volumes presented in Geneva, have now been published and are available here (in French):
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 2.6 MB, French)
«Auschwitz, Matricule 71978», Nina Weilová
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 2.5 MB, French)
«Souvenirs de la plus longue année de ma vie», Peter Lebovic
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 2.8 MB, French)
«En chemin», André Sirtes
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 3.7 MB, French)
«Et alors, j'ai commencé à raconter», Andreas Sàs
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 3.7 MB, French)
«De Békéscsaba à Auschwitz et retour», Gábor Hirsch
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 3.4 MB, French)
«Le fardeau des souvenirs», Gàbor Nyirö
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 8.7 MB, French)
«Bergen-Belsen, achevé - inachevé», Ivan Lefkovits
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 3.4 MB, French)
«Une jeunesse privée de liberté», Arnost Schlesinger
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 4.5 MB, French)
«Témoignages de deux rescapés pragois de l'Holocauste», Hana und Hanus Arend
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 1.9 MB, French)
«Souvenirs d'enfance», Jake Fersztand
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 1.8 MB, French)
««Souvenirs d’enfance», Sigmund Baumöhl
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 2.2 MB, French)
«Un matin, il n’y avait plus personne», Klaus Appel
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 2.4 MB, French)
«…Sans un adieu!», Fabian Gerson
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 42 Pages, 2.1 MB, French)
«J’ai toujours eu de la chance», Christa Markovits
«Un destin de rescapée à Budapest», Eva Alpar
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 2.2 MB, French)
«J'ai survécu à Theresienstadt», Ernst Brenner
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
Mémoires de survivants de l’Holocauste (PDF, 2.3 MB, French)
«Passeurs de mémoires», Histoire de la série, traduite en partie dans des classes romandes
© Ivan Lefkovits & Schule für Gestaltung, Basel
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