They were old enough to happily walk around a schoolyard, but the archives of the time show them dazed, hungry, wandering barefoot among the rubble. They have lost everything: their parents, their home and certainly their carelessness. So, on the still smoking field of ruins that Europe became in the spring of 1945, the children of war hold hands so as not to lose the brother or sister they have left or the little companion of misfortune crossed, like them, in search of food or shelter. They hold hands to keep from falling. So as not to sink in the face of the dizzying challenge that awaits them. “An emblematic image alone concentrates all the incomprehension and concern that gripped these children at that time.specifies Agnès Pizzini, co-director with Julien Johan of this striking documentary. It is that of a little girl whose terrified gaze photographer Chim (alias David Seymour) captured in a Polish orphanage in 1948. On the blackboard, she drew an indescribable chaos. » How to invent your future when you have lost everything, even your identity? Simple victims, the lost children of the war will find themselves at the center of the geopolitical stakes of a Europe in full reconstruction.
“These children represent a wealth for nations weakened by conflict”
On May 8, 1945, New York, Paris, London and Moscow celebrate with jubilation the victory of the Allies, but for the 100,000
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