"The Illuminations" is the name of the page weekly signing the novelist and critic Félix Romeo in ABCD arts and letters, newspaper supplement ABC. On Saturday, in this "blog on paper" Romeo spent two tickets to No flowers or wreaths : Odette Elina
... A book that makes me shudder: No flowers or wreaths. Auschwitz-Birkenau, 1944-1945 (Peripheral), Elina Odette (1910-1991). Elina Odette was Jewish, communist, and belonged to the Resistance. She was arrested and taken to lager. Wrote and drew, what was happening, what I saw, I thought. The first edition was published in Bourges in 1948.
"It is hard to think of someone when you know where you are." And: "The dogs are trained to modern, and bark about. Everything is in keeping pace, not to be abandoned, not to fall (...) I can not run, have released the dogs behind us. I can not. What difference does it end this way or another. "And:" Not only the elderly, also Jewish children were burned with their mothers to come to Camp. "
Toulouse
We planned this trip to Toulouse for some time but now has even more interest: visit Fiac, "paradise lost" Odette Elina, forty kilometers from Toulouse. Visit FIAC, 600 inhabitants, and to know more about Odette Elina, and if not getting to know anything, try me do not know how a first edition of No flowers or wreaths . Find, after all, a story to tell.
