Lecture by Christiane Lauthelier and Odile Bernard
Lenders to the Valises! exhibition
Roundtable discussion: family histories, inheriting and passing on
Telling your family story, and through it, bearing witness to the journey of parents whose lives were disrupted by history. As the exhibition Suitcases! Histoires d'un objet dans la guerre (Suitcases! Stories of an object in war ) is coming to an end, the museum invites you to a round table discussion with two descendants who have lent their archives. Passing on the story is what Christiane Lauthelier, daughter of a resistance fighter who was shot and a resistance fighter who was deported, set out to do almost 20 years ago. Visiting middle schools and high schools, she shares her story and that of her parents, accompanied each time by her suitcase full of archives. Similarly, Odile Bernard, daughter of a man conscripted into the STO (Service du Travail Obligatoire, or Compulsory Work Service) in Germany, keeps her father's suitcase containing all the objects he used during this ordeal. A suitcase that she says she has always remembered and which she now lends out to continue passing on the story. In a unique round table format, the museum invites you to talk with these descendants, heirs to family histories that were turned upside down but are still alive today.
Courbet Room, access via 2 or 6 Rue Mégevand, Besançon
Reservations required
As part of its annual lecture series, the Museum of Resistance and Deportation invites you to join us oneThursday per monthfor a new lecture and a new guest speaker.