The 90-year-old French woman Colette, a supporter of the Resistance, lost her brother in the Dora concentration camp. After more than 75 years visited the concentration camp memorial near Nordhausen. An initiative is now to bring the valuable, touching documentation to schools in North Thuringia, and the Thuringian Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs was involved – anyone who sees the film about Colette’s fate is touched. After more than 75 years, a 90-year-old former resistance fighter visits Germany for the first time in “Colette”. Her brother was a prisoner in the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp. He died here. It’s a touching, very human film of high quality.
Colette never wanted to set foot on German soil, only when she met the young student Lucie did she visit the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp memorial near Nordhausen. The two women develop a special relationship and show their emotions very openly. An educationally valuable film.
It is therefore suggested that this film be shown here in the schools to the respective leaving classes and discussed pedagogically. The question and confrontation with fascism cannot be presented better, but neither can the question of resistance. Last but not least, the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp is also a large French cemetery, so it can be remembered in a special way. You can also find the film here, with the Guardian and the team a public screening is to follow in Nordhausen.
How and when such an event can take place in Nordhausen due to the corona is still open.
The Thuringian Ministry of Culture was asked to examine this proposal.
Tim Schäfer
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