(en) France, Alternative Libertaire AL #238 - Read: Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, "Hunt black butterflies" (fr, pt)

"Sarah had not 8 years His life was gentle, dreams and white clouds But other decided 
otherwise"[1] ---- Sarah I will talk was barely old when the Nazis deported to Auschwitz / 
Birkenau. It could just as well be Sarah sings Jean-Jacques Goldman. Today, a survivor of 
the death camps, it still shows in high schools in the Paris region. But his testimony 
does not stop there as she posed in writing all the suffering, humiliation, beatings, 
hunger, disease, forced labor, arbitrary executions depending on the mood of the SS, the 
smell execrable crematoria that invaded the camp: the horror of the concentration camp 
hell, she suffers with her mother at her side. But not only because Sarah 
Lichtsztejn-Montard, daughter of Jewish anarchist militant-e talking about before and 
after the concentration camp hell. Her happy childhood militant commitment of parents with 
Nestor Makhno who invites the family home during his exile in Paris. Then the years of 
occupation, hiding, his escape from the Vel d'Hiv 'hideout in anarchist friends, 
denunciation, the Drancy transit and travel Pichkepo?[2].

But for Sarah, there will be a post. First, it contributes to the long, tiring walk from 
remote-es-es taken from east to west by the Nazis As the advance of the Red Army. And 
deliverance, and return to France. Reintegration in the daily France after the war, will 
be full of vicissitudes. Then love with her husband Phillipe ringing the hour of 
redemption. The originality of this story lies in the fact that the concentration camp 
cursed period is part of his career as a Jewish woman and with all the feelings and 
emotions that overwhelm. His main battle is an ode to life, that of having had two 
children, grandchildren and for a short time to be great-grandmother, beautiful snook Nazi 
exterminators!

Jean-Marc (AL Toulouse)

Sarah Lichtsztejn-Montard, Hunt black butterflies, collection Stories of the Holocaust, 
the Jewish Foundation for editing Memory of the Shoah, 2011, 356 pages, 25.90 euros.


[1] word of the song by Jean-Jacques Goldman, "like you"

[2] A term used by Jewish adults who went into exile, which means "the town of nowhere."