Les Suppliques (2022)

Between 1940 and 1944, thousands of "petitions" from Jews or relatives of victims of persecution were addressed to the CGQJ (General Commission for Jewish Questions) directly or via Marshal Pétain. The French administration first pretended to examine these requests and then, from June 1942 onward, systematically deflected them to the occupying authorities. These petitions tell the story of lives turned upside down. They show the inexorable spiral in which men, women, and sometimes children, are struggling, trying by all means to break the trap.