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die and they're going to. luigi toscano travels around the world photographing contemporary witnesses of the holocaust. now he's on his way to paris for his largest exhibition to date. the project is a race against time. you're seeing there won't be any survivors left. because it's all the picture that i take around or that much component because i didn't fit that job. soon his portrait of 95 year old she met will be joining them she survived the auschwitz be a canal concentration camp see if you. think i am
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ok jeannette coalinga was lucky upon arrival at the camp her father brother and nephew were all sent straight to the gas chamber she met was 19 at the time of the . currency a court order so maybe the bright light remind some of the survivors of the interrogations by the gestapo jeanette calling is nervous it was a staff member of a jewish organization reassures her the woman knows the survivors she translates and helps the photographer establish a sense of trust. look can you open dice cleveland look more into these or don't i don't know. it will get it built my eyes are burning. so. it is.
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shakeups right very good. conservative picture with pretty after the photo session as you note calling because story is written down. like many jews in france she kept it to herself for years not even telling her husband for a long time magazine. made up richard know. i'm a little embarrassed about being famous for my story. yet they're not they're going so many people dying in europe during that time. and me because of that period i'm considered a celebrity. gossip. when i think about it i feel ashamed seizure of after she. you know very much else you know each of these encounters is difficult for luigi toscano he has to maintain an emotional distance as a means of self protection.
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i think robert's him if i'm pretty sure that if it were allowed we would embrace one of them and of course there's a sense of powerlessness knowing that people have been through such horrible suffering. it really gets to. unesco had quarters in paris luigi toscano as exhibition will soon be on display in and around the building. the crash town this is just like the fence of the united nations in new york. researchers i wish i could set up straight away but unfortunately that's not possible the pictures on here yet i'm feeling antsy. to do you have security here we must speak about what's going on when something happens you know what we were doing together and they start to made us what the sky so you know we we must of course when there is. what we call
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sensible exhibitions it's these one unfortunately we check every day. with little little security you know traditionally give us i was always the fear in the back of my mind that something might happen to me like you know time might be made the target of an attack but we expected it to happen eventually i see and yet . in 2908 dead while on display in vienna several portraits were vandalized the incident made headlines around the world the shops i'm gonna matar the gun i just couldn't bear it or those pictures destroyed the swastikas out of their faces that was really tough it tore me out by the embargo survivors cooled me and of course they are appalled by what happened about the force of what they said luigi what young don't give up we didn't leave the boy . beyond us all an issue must.
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measure for we are about to meet another wonderful person i don't know much about anybody. already there if you like. i don't know how to. battle. my parents were picked up and sent to auschwitz. he said i lost 17 family members in paris alone and poland all of them killed asis . shouldn't i fled from
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a detention center with my sister because my mother wanted us to escape us. may have a vertical says shop she said and i didn't want to leave her i was scared oh so she slapped match my mother slapped me. it was the 1st slap of my life and i later realized the slap saved me was. i left through the fire exit. the policeman on duty and let my sister and me leave they simply looked the other way. called although when you're 8 years old and they take your mother your father practically your whole family when you grow up quickly you're no longer a child. mannheim germany a week before the opening. this
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is one of the few places where i can really relax and unwind just for the coffee and taking the photographs is not all aspects hack you learn itself it's in countering the people i'm more interested in their stories shifting i can't get them out of my head and. it's affected me so deeply there were times where i couldn't sleep for days on end and i suffered a sudden hearing loss it's something that i really needed time to get used to or i had to get used to because otherwise it's impossible to come to terms with all that's insanity. the whole of course is something i've always grappled with. and that's why i developed this concept of displaying portraits in public spaces. to intentionally
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provoke to say hey there are still people around people who survived that madness. and yet in some places in communities around the world we act as though the whole thing never happened. the. final preparations are made in a warehouse on the outskirts of paris. and the latest photos have just come back from the printers. on one hand you look at the details to make sure everything's alright on the other when you're standing. here face to face so to speak you have flashbacks of the true encounter. 4 days later installation begins portraits from the e.g. toscano lest we forget series have already been exhibited in new york berlin and
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washington d.c. . it's pretty impressive i have to say this is the biggest exhibition what had up to now so it's a whole new dimension in itself. we're presenting over 200 photos here and people are starting to come and look at them and read the stories and that's just what i'd hoped to achieve this was a shot i should wish to. the exhibition inside the unesco building includes a portrait of 86 year old russian d.d. knock to date toscano has photographed some 400 people for his series he doesn't have a favorite what matters to him are the people they represent he knows all of them by name. so what of susan who was actually the 1st woman i was able to photograph and she made the last thing impression on me. she said something very
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profound for those who forget the past but to repeat it. and i think she entrusted me with this saying and said take it and internalize it and keep this saying in mind when you need it most. just when people start to relativize or even to noir the holocaust it's a fine line and. it's the day of the opening all the portraits are in place and the photographer is feeling a bit nervous gets called for survive as a coming of course i'm nervous because we're talking about survivors who allowed me to take that poor traits and now that we seeing the pictures for the 1st time. i hope everything goes well because. he's worried about the reaction of one man in particular and he his own father of on yes who's all former health minister of france. so i was in there with.
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the circuits really exciting. good to recruit i guess this is the reality because i can't stand to see such a sad old soul. food through. here but the. record exact. she seems to like it a lot that's a nice feeling but i think that for a person moment it's not just my fortress because it represents so much more for all those deaths to see the entire show on it's important for this exhibition to exist and to travel around the world it can shift your back to.
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