Les Garçons de Rollin

France

Les Garçons de Rollin

Claude Ventura

"1940. There they are, on the class photos, staring at me… the Rollin boys…" Claude Ventura follows the tracks of the ghosts that still haunt the Rollin high school. The Rollin boys… Very young people, almost children. Some of them, Resistance members already, went straight from their class photo to the police ID photo, before facing execution squads. Others joined the Milice or the Waffen-SS. There are also these empty chairs in class after roundups…

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