After training in podcasting at the Bordeaux-Aquitaine Journalism Institute with Olivier Uguen, I have been working in podcasts since 2022. In particular, this year I created the series “It Happened That Day”, a historical podcast series about the memory of the Holocaust in Europe.
Eighty-five years after Kristallnacht, the wave of violence unleashed against Jews living in Germany and Austria on the night of November 9, 1938, I decided to launch a podcast series entitled “It Happened That Day” (C’était ce jour-là).
This series is dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust in Europe. It gathers testimonies from people who keep this memory alive and who are committed to restoring identity to those whose lives were shattered overnight when a regime decided to erase them from humanity.
In 2023, while in Berlin, I met one of the volunteers from the Stolpersteine Initiative. Dedicated to preserving the memory of victims of Nazism, the initiative places commemorative stones in front of the former homes of those who were deported or murdered during the Holocaust.
Moved by the importance of transmitting this memory to future generations, she agreed to give me an interview and share her commitment to keeping these individual stories alive.
She took me to a house on Belziger Straße where 22 Jewish families once lived. On a single day, their lives were abruptly turned upside down. They were arrested by the Gestapo and deported to concentration camps, where many of them were murdered. Standing in front of that building, she explained how suddenly an entire life can be destroyed by a totalitarian regime.
That day, their lives changed forever.
This podcast led me to interview many people in Berlin, Paris, Strasbourg, and Bordeaux, including Holocaust survivors.
“It Happened That Day” received the Podcast Strasbourg 2024 award in the “Experienced” category.
It is available on Deezer, Spotify, and YouTube, and can also be found on its dedicated website: My Voice Reports.