After WWII: The Forgotton Survivors of the Holocaust
In collective memory, the liberation of the Nazi camps in 1945 marks the end of the nightmare for survivors of the Holocaust. Yet for tens of thousands of survivors, a new ordeal began at that very moment. Left without a home, without a country, and without any immediate future, they were gathered in “displaced persons camps”, hastily set up by the Allies.
Intended to be temporary, these camps in fact lasted for several years, during which survivors of the Final Solution began to rebuild their lives, within the relative safety of a community bound by shared suffering.
Drawing on the memory of these camps, this documentary retraces a multitude of individual and collective journeys, highlighting the determination of these men and women who, amidst the ruins of Europe, sought to imagine an “after.”
Type (Documentaire / Documentaire fiction / Série documentaire)Two-part documentary seriesGenre en anglaisHistoryAuthorAntoine DauerDirected by Antoine Dauer and Michèle DominiciEditingRaphaël PéaudMusicGuillaume Le HénaffGraphic design Thomas BoutetWith the support of la Région Ile de France, la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, CNC and La Procirep - AngoaBroadcasted by ARTE FranceDistributed by ZedYear2026Duration2*45 minutes
Within these camps, committees emerged, newspapers circulated, and social and religious institutions took shape. A new cohesion formed around a shared identity, that of the She’erit Hapletah, “the surviving remnant.” Then came the first steps toward recognition of their rights and to seek a land of refuge.
After years of relatively stable life in the displaced persons camps, the fate of the survivors remained dependent on slow-moving international decisions. Discouragement grew, eyes turned toward Palestine, and clandestine departures multiplied. In 1948, the doors of Israel and the United States finally opened. Freedom, long out of reach, at long last become possible.
“It has been five years. Five years since our liberation from concentration camps.
Now we will know what freedom is.“
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