Résumé
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For Paul-Samuel Auszenkier, who is now 85, keeping a place for memory doesn't mean telling his life story rather communicating the meaning he has discerned and giving thanks for the meetings that constructed the person he is today. But his is also a quest for truth, in order to resolve the duality of being both Jewish and Christian, at least in the eyes of others. Baptised at the age of seventeen, during WW1, he has constantly questioned his own identity, often a painful task and an inexpressible one. His personal history is deeply marked by the events of his lifetime, of which he was both witness and actor. When he arrived in Paris from Poland in 1934, he saw the progressive breaking up of his family: sisters in Palestine, a brother taken prisoner, another sister deported to Auschwitz he himself managed to reach Free France before being imprisoned for several months in Spain. He joined the 2nd armoured division, and with them he took part in D-day in August 1944 and the Liberation of Paris. He participated in the hunt for Nazis with the American secret services, lived for ten years in Paris where he met many famous people, went to join his mother and sisters in the young State of Israel came back to France a few years later, married and had children. His testimony then moves on to Judeo-Christian relations in the Catholic Church, and the vocation he discovered thanks to his friendship with Mgr Lustiger: to contribute, as a non-cleric, to a better knowledge and mutual recognition between Jews and Christians. Beyond the narration of a personal path, this book will be of interest to all those, believers or not, who question the role of memory in transmission so that, from generation to generation, each one of us can discover their roots and construct their own lives in reference to those who went before.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Cerf |
| Auteur(s) | Auszenkier Paul-Samuel |
| Collection | L'histoire à vif |
| Parution | 05/11/2009 |
| Format | 13.5 x 21.5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 198g |
| EAN13 | 9782204090629 |
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