As a Young Girl of Thirteen
Directed by Elizabeth Coronel, Florence Gaillard, Arnaud de Mezamat88m[Documentary](/on-demand/category/documentary)
Holocaust survivor Simone Lagrange recounts in detail her life before the war, her deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau, and her role in bringing Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie to justice. Essentially an extended conversation interspersed with archival images and earlier footage of Lagrange, "As a Young Girl of Thirteen" is an engaging portrait of a woman determined to never let her spirit be broken. As a schoolgirl, she threw an inkwell at a teacher who singled out the Jews in her classroom. At Auschwitz she squeezed ink out of the identification number tattooed on her arm. In an anteroom to the gas chambers, potentially moments from death, she refused to stand for a the camp commandant, so infuriating him that he slapped her and had her taken out of his sight-thereby saving her life.
