The Lady of Izieu

the Lady of Izieu is a Téléfilm which tells how a woman assisted from the Jewish children taken refuge during the Second world war to Izieu (in the Ain).

Summary

In France, during the Second world war, Sabine Zlatin, a Jewish of Polish origin lives with Montpellier with her husband Miron Zlatin. It is military nurse, he is agronomist. But in France under German occupation, the Jews must hide not to be off-set in the camps. When Sabine meets Lea Feldblum, a Jewish young woman dissimulating her identity, this one makes him join the organization of the Oeuvre of Help to the Children (OSE). Its mission will be consequently to save the children locked up in the Camp of transit, but it has more and more difficulties in find a hearth for the children. She then founds in Izieu the colony of children taken refuge of Herault, where the orphans until a raid organized in 1944 on the initiative of Klaus Barbie pension.

Data sheet

  • Film: 2 parts, the Mission & the Refuge, 2x90 mn.

  • Kind: Drama
  • French - 2006
  • Realizer: Alain Wermus
  • Scenario writers: Stephan Kaminka and Alain Stern
  • Left: France (2007, TF1)

Actors

With knowknowing

  • the film was turned to Prague in Czech Republic during eight weeks at the time which it made until 45°. Veronique Genest was to remake her make-up 4 times per day.

  • the son of Veronique Genest belongs to the team of the fifteen young French actors. The other young actors are young Czech.
  • Sabine Zlatin really existed, it died in 1996 at 89 years after the lawsuit against Klaus Barbie.
  • a book left, Mémoires of the lady of Izieu in which Sabine Zlatin tells her adventure of Résistance during the war.
  • In the 13th district of Paris, a commemorative plaque at summer posed. The street is called now “Place Of the 44 Children of Izieu”.

See Too

Internal bonds

External bonds

  • the Lady of Izieu, TF1

  • Interview of Veronique Genest by '' Jewish Tribune ''

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