80 years ago, on January 27, 1945, Soviet soldiers released the largest concentration and extermination camp of the third Reich, Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million Jews perished in five years.
Monday, January 27, 2025, TV5monde mobilizes its 8 channels, its writing and its social networks to offer a special program devoted to the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the release of the Auschwitz camp. On the program of this day of tribute to the victims and awareness of the duty of memory: special editions, reports, testimonies of survivors and interviews with historians and artists
From 9 a.m. to 11:15 a.m. – Live on 8 TV5monde TV channels
Commemoration at the Shoah Memorial in Paris in the presence of the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron.
11am TV5monde newspaper
Interview with Ginette Kolinka, Surviving the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp and committed to peace.
1:30 p.m. Journal of TV5monde
Interview with Annette Wieviorka, historian specialist in Holocaust
Journal of 6:00 p.m. – 64 'Le Monde in French
Mohamed Kaci receives Jacques Semelin, historian, François Rachline, historian and Catherine Bernstein – director of the documentary series “Auschwitz – survivors tell” on France 5.
-Cinema – “Les Milles, Le Train de la Liberté” – At 9:00 pm
1940. Jews, communists and other opponents of Nazism are interned at Camp des Milles, near Aix-en-Provence. Among them, many fled Hitler's Germany in 1933. But while France has just signed the armistice, Commander Perrochon cannot resolve to deliver them to the Nazis …
Duration: 1h40
Realization: Sébastien Grall (France/Germany/Poland, 1995)
Music: Alexandre Desplat
TV5MONDE will broadcast live internationally from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., the special edition of its partner channel France 2: Commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of the Auschwitz camp.
Julian Bugier, accompanied by Nathalie Saint-Cricq, will receive in set Tal Bruttmann, historian specialist in Holocaust. Together, they will comment on the international ceremony to be held in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in the presence of survivors, heads of state and government, representatives of the political, religious and associative world who work for the work of memory.
Reports, testimonies, archives and duplex with Stéphanie Perez and Jeff Wittenberg, live from Auschwitz, Poland, as well as with special envoys in Paris and Lyon.
