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FJN at Trails of Memory in Coutances

The memory of our days clashes with the disappearance of the survivors.
National memory is a source of social connection if it is
considered as such from the start among younger generations. The seventh edition of International Memory Week runs until Friday, March 8, 2019,
in Coutances.
How to approach the question of memory and that of its transmission to train young people aware of the threats of oblivion. Christian Savary, president of the association “Les sentiers de la Mémoire”
And this thanks to the mobilization and convergence of young high school students to value their considerable contribution.

During the first inaugural session, in front of several high school students, it was a question of approaching the question of the national memory in its diversity and we had the opportunity to speak to the young people of the diversity within the Jewish people and in particular of the Black Jews , something most young people had never heard of.
The FJN thus intended to capitalize on this experience, to share it, to confront it with others and to make so that together they become an integral part of the national experience.
For the young people present, the conference was an opportunity to remind them of the importance of the duty of memory with the disappearance of witnesses.
It was part of several important issues of memory: understanding of a test that engages the whole of the French society, transmission of this memory to the young people of today, paying homage to those who lived the war and made the sacrifice of their life. Finally, the stakes of memory invite to apprehend the past inthe prospect of a shared national and European history.
Radu Mihaileanu’s film “Go, live and become” is no exception to the rule since it is a vast reflection on the exile of Beta Israel.
Finally, a concert given in the evening by Israeli musician Gili Yalo in front of a packed house of young people where he brewed his Ethiopian origins in a mix of soul and funk. He sings in Amharic, Hebrew and English, with a universe more turned to reggae, where also seem to pierce the coppery sinuosities of Addis Ababa.

 

 

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