Early 1960s. Bernard and Alex are two brothers but do not have the same name. Bernard's surname is Appelbaum and his father was deported to Auschwitz in 1942. Alex's surname is Zygleman and his father died in 1949 in a plane crash in the Azores. Their mother loved both men in a story that recalls that of Jules and Jim. In an interlocking of mutually echoing narratives recalling the Hasidic tradition, between fiction and truth, this coming-of-age novel is a quest through memories and the archives of the past, with its absences and disappearances.
In conversation with Frédérique Berthet, author and professor of film studies at the Université Paris-Cité. Reading by Laurent Poitrenaux, actor.
Programme as part of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the Mémorial du Martyr juif inconnu, which became the Mémorial de la Shoah in 2005.