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During the Second World War, a tiny part of the French population were members of the Resistance. Men and women with different ideologies but all fought for the liberation of France. Edmone Robert was in the “Front National” which was a communist resistance group. She was deported and her report card is kept in the Calvados archives. Elisabeth OLIVE, vice director of Calvados archives, tells us about her story.
Elisabeth Olive welcomed us at the Calvados’ archives. As she’s the associate director of the archives, she guided a visit of their premises. She also presented a few portraits of Resistance fighters of the region. Among them, Gaëtane Bouffay, native from Lisieux, an activist woman who led a resistance network between 1942 and october 1943.
Archivist at Caen memorial museum, Mathilde Rouquet received us on October 7th. She presented archives of the museum. Three editions of the American photo magazine, Life, attracted our attention. After Pearl Harbor’ attack, the magazine’ headline evolve. The housewife’ figure gives way to the image of nurse and soldier. The goal is to give other perspectives of the domestic roles assigned to women, and let them be part of the war.
In 2004, the question of women’ role in the war appeared as a topic for study. Women’s role in the war was brought to the front line in Caen’s Memorial museum. But why did the question emerge in that of a belated stage ? Why is the museum interested in renewing the subject matter ? Christophe Prime, historian at the Caen Memorial museum, pointed out these evolutions.
If everybody can call Jean moulin as resistant, it’s often harder to quote women resistant for the general public. 20% of ranks of the « the army of shadows » were women!
Like Simone Veil, Anette Lajon or Louise Aubrac, they all acted in the silence to allow the allies to do the landings, morning of the 6 June 1944 to make France free again. Since September 2018, the Caen Mémorial Museum decided to propose a tour focus on the role of Women during the World War II. For Nathalie Lemière, the job of Women in the resistantce was not highlighted. She explain that by the lack of testimonies. From the combattante Women to the Women judged for collaboration or the story of the Kirzner’s twins sent in the death room, the museum want to make an hommage.
After the war, acts of many women have not been highlighted. Many of them were resistants, fighters or also helpers, who didn’t tell their stories, to the benefit of the one related to men. For Carol Mann, historian and sociologist specialist in gender and armed conflict, the history has been written by men for men. In the most recent conflicts, the female figures still and have always opted for silence at the end of their fight. Carol Mann transmits us the fruit of their researches about gender and conflicts.
The Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives located in Calvados welcomed us, on Wednesday, 9th of October. Marjorie Delabarre, in charge of hosting researchers and the library, guided us for a historical visit of the site and the archives. The IMEC allows the storage of publishing archives. This private holding gathers many documents, such as press articles, works of journalists, or publisher’s research. For example, it’s possible to found the first version of a book, or some researches of journalists, when they do an investigation. The archives contain French documents, but also foreign ones. Some of them aren’t public, because the owners have stipulated they remain private. The archivists are subject to professional secrecy. These archives aren’t open to the public. They can be open for the researchers for their theses. Members of the IMEC facilitate their arrival, as Marjorie Delabarre does. Many documents are made available to them, or in a digitized version if they are too old.
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Every two years, Bayeux honour journalists who died for their profession.Their names are engraved on a stele. On 10 October, the elected representatives of Bayeux, journalists, families…inaugurated the 2018 – 2019 stele. Among the many names engraved in the white stone are those of Jamal KHASHOGGI and Lyra MCKEE. Their relatives held a speech to remind us of the importance of remembering them, but also of the lack of condemnation of those responsible. Reporters without Borders Secretary-General Christophe DELOIRE, who hosted the tribute ceremony, answered our questions.He explains the place of women among war reporters.
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This is a video about an exhibition in Bayeux portraying the war in gaza and focusing on the the point of view of the photojournalist Mohammad El Baba through his lens. In this video, El Baba explains how getting a good photo is not worth your life and soul.