It’s the 70th anniversary year of the start of deportations from Drancy, a drab suburb of Paris. Copy and paste this link — http://db.tt/BFzyzK5l — into your browser bar to hear the story of Leo Bretholz, a Holocaust survivor who is still fighting for justice, 70 years later.
A slideshow of portraits by my friend, Jean-Luc Petit. I’m using these, with his permission, in the multimedia skills class I’m teaching at the University of Maryland.
“We learn more from those parts of our history where we stumbled as a democracy than from the glorious chapters.” George Takei in an interview about Allegiance