Denis BRUHL is the son of Robert BRUHL, who escaped to England in January 1944. Denis has gathered numerous documents and testimonies to understand how this escape took place. He has managed to track down some of the families who courageously sheltered the escapees in Cancon, Lougratte, Montaut, Saint Maurice-de-l'Estapelle, Montflanquin, Fourcès, Sos, Mazère-de-Neste, cantine du Rioumajou (Hautes Pyrénées) © Denis BRUHL
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Famous writers such as Maurice Druon and Joseph Kessel have said that it was at the Col de Banyuls, on leaving France, that the song of the partisans was born. For 11 sites, panels with commentary and illustrated with period photographs will complete the information for hikers taking these "paths". They pay tribute to the courage of the local population, who helped those fleeing the occupying forces (resistance fighters, Jews, young STO draft dodgers joining the Free French troops in Algiers...) to cross over to Spain. Among them were writers [...]
Read MoreThe documentary film aims to pay tribute to the men, women and children who climbed them by the hundreds of thousands, through an aesthetic and poetic narrative that is above all memorial and educational, with the aim of denouncing the hatred that produced this suffering and passing on to younger generations the responsibility of ensuring that it does not happen again.
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