Never forget, Anne-Marie Mitterrand’s official Blog

by Comunidad Judía · 25 Iyyar 5779 – 30 May, 2019

Never forget

My dear friends,
It’s been a long time since I gave you some news. I’m going to catch up by telling you the two events that have marked the past few weeks.
I first went to Miami to meet my dear friends Tamara and Ariel Elia who chose to live on the top floor of a building overlooking the city: fabulous! And wonderful surprise, my dear son and his wife who live in New York came over: absolute happiness.

I was moved by the visit of the Holocaust Memorial. There is no word to describe the beauty and emotion of Kenneth Treister‘s sculptures. You must go see it.

Floride, Miami Beach, Holocaust Memorial, Kenneth Treister sculptor and designer

The most difficult to be OK with, for me, were the hordes of women who wandered through the streets of the city in thong, I was shocked outright. The only difference that exists between animals and humans is speech and clothing, and even if we love animals, why want to erase it?

Back in Paris, I received an Israeli friend, the eminent Professor Shaul Harel, specialist in neurological pediatrics, who came to talk about his book “A child without shadow” in which he pays tribute to the Belgian citizen Andrée Geulenwho was 20 when she saved Shaul and thousands of Jewish children. My dear Jean-Marc Foult introduced the author, the film and the music with the intensity that is his. We were all deeply touched.