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The Commitment

by Michèle MASSÉ

Infos

Original title : L'Engagement

Director : Michèle MASSÉ

Production : Ana Films

Duration : 52 Minutes

Year : 2010

Original version : French

Country : France

Synopsis

On June 8, 1942, Josèphe Cardin, a Catholic girl in occupied France, wore a yellow star in rebellion against the Vichy regime. On the grounds of being "a friend of the Jews”, she was arrested by French police and incarcerated in camps at Drancy and Tourelles. During her incarceration, she cared for children before their departure to Auschwitz concentration camp. This act of resistance in the transit camps marked her life forever. Michèle Massé tells the extraordinary destiny of a young woman who was her mother...

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