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Language: French

Subtitles: None

In May 1940, Alex Bonn - born June 18, 1908 - was a young lawyer at the Luxembourg Bar, registered in 1932. He played an important role in the country's Jewish community and once represented the Jewish Consistory. At the centre of this reading are two unpublished texts by Alex Bonn: one, an unpublished nine-page article written in New York in October 1941, in the form of a report on the situation of Jews in Luxembourg in 1940/41. The other, a text relating to his relations with the Gestapo - in particular the trips he made through France, in the company of Gestapo agents towards Portugal. Indeed, at that time, Alex Bonn was trying to help organise the departure of Jews from Luxembourg. In this reading, Alex Bonn's two texts are complementary, in particular through extracts from other first-hand testimonies, such as the fifteen-page memoir of Sigismond Leib, general secretary of the Israelite Consistory, dated June 20, 1942. Alex Bonn, who himself emigrated to New York in April 1941, returned to the country after the war and continued his brilliant career as a lawyer.

Author: Alex Bonn

Genre: Theatre - Reading

Reading: Marc Limpach, Elsa Rauchs 

Music: Michel Reis, Claire Parsons

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