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01/03/2021 - BERLINALE 2021: Alice Diop pieces together an ambitious patchwork documentary on Paris’s deprived suburbs, crafting an interlacing which questions humanity, time and modern-day collective identity

(The article continues below - Commercial information) Written by the director (before she tried her hand at fiction in the form of Saint-Omer), the story unfolds around an urban train link, the RER B, which crosses Paris and its outskirts from north to south. It journeys across these indistinct spaces known as inner cities and suburbs, resulting in various encounters involving a cleaning lady in Roissy, a scrap merchant in Bourget, a nurse in Drancy, a writer in Gif-sur-Yvette, a hunt followe...

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Catholics in France urged to up efforts to fight anti-Semitism French bishops pledge to do more to combat anti-Semitism, calling on all Catholics to join them Chief Rabbi of France Haim Korsia welcomed the "beautiful approach" of the Conference of Bishops of France, which has committed itself in a declaration to fight against anti-Semitism. (Photo by ALESSIA GIULIANI/CPP/CIRIC) The Catholic Episcopal Conference of France (CEF) has renewed its rejection of anti-Semitism and has vowed "to figh...

Updated: 27 Jan 2021, 9:51 Invalid Date, THE HOLOCAUST is among the greatest atrocities in world history, as millions of European Jews were subjected to torture and death. The genocide sent shockwaves across the globe with many memorials and movies dedicated to the horrific events. 5 What happened during the Holocaust? The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah - which means "destruction" in Hebrew - is a genocide that was carried out largely during World War II, as Jews were targeted among other ...

An Auschwitz survivor and his wife have celebrated their platinimum wedding anniversary. Freddie and Freda Knoller marked 70 happy years together on New Year’s Eve on a Zoom with members and volunteers of Jewish Care’s Holocaust Survivors’ Centre. Members of the Centre for many years, the couple joined the weekly virtual Yiddish group and staff shared one of Freddie and Freda’s favourite song, Sophie Milman’s, “Ochi Chernye”, with the volunteers and members. Speaking on th...

Six prominent Holocaust survivors have died in Europe over the past month   Esther Cohen (JTA) - The constant stream of breaking news about American politics and the coronavirus pandemic has hidden a sobering fact: Six prominent Holocaust survivors who had dedicated much of their lives to educating others against hatred have died in Europe over the past month. These are their stories. Esther Cohen One of only 160 people from her native Greek city of Ioannina who survived the genocide, Cohen di...

Here are two books that offer unique voices on surviving Nazi occupied Europe and have several key plot points in common. Both feature women as the main characters and neither is Jewish. Both works also explore the immigrant experience in the U.S. after the war. But that’s where the similarities end. The first is a memoir. Immigrant Dreams, by Barbara Goldowski, in which the author reflects on when she was a fatherless child living with her small, impoverished family in the medieval town of ...