YVETTE, 1943, TRAVAILLEUSE CIVILE SOUS L'OCCUPATION

Documentary play & exchange time

Yvette, 1943, The occupation

[his Destiny from Nantes to Vienna in Austria]

The documentary show “Yvette, 1943, civil worker under the Occupation - her destiny from Nantes to Vienna in Austria” will be followed by a time of women French of popular circles under the Occupation, with Sylvain Maresca, author of the book "From Nantes to Vienna, a woman under the Occupation" and with Annick Soret, the daughter of Yvette Paré-Moison.

Duration of the room: 1h | All audiences from 14 years old

game: Ronan Cheviller & Anne Neyens

Light: Thierry Mathieu | Graphics: Yoan Robin | Painted dresses: Nancy Sulmont.

According to the book "from Nantes to Vienna, a woman under the Occupation", by Sylvain Maresca [La Geste Éditions, October 2024]

It is a question of retracing the destiny of a young Nantes under the occupation of which we lose track in 1943 and that we find Died in Vienna, in Austria, January 1, 1944 the age of 22. What happened to him?

investigate his journey is to open his gaze on the story of so many ordinary French people in these times disturbed of the Second World War. A dive into the archives, almost 80 years later, which strives to restore the fragile memory of the invisible.

The two actors, like journalists, bring you into the suspense of a historic investigation in the archives to reconstruct Yvette's life. They invite you to reflect on the choices of a Nantesseise from popular circles in precarious situations which leaves in Vienna in Austria in 1943 as a civil worker.

between 1940 and 1945, nearly 80,000 French women went to work in Nazi Germany and its occupied territories. A subject still too little known that has only been addressed for very recently and has long been taboo. Yvette is a European figure: its history opens up a more complex and nuanced understanding on the conditions of women and the civilian population during the Second World War.