Saturday, January 15, 3 PM in Biot – Sainte Marie-Madeleine Church
The meeting with Martin Gray, author of the famous book “For Those I Loved,” will take place on Saturday, January 15 at 3 PM in Sainte Marie-Madeleine Church in Biot. All generations are invited to come and discover and share his life story, thereby fostering the concepts of resilience and humanism.
Despite having published 12 books, Martin Gray considers himself a witness rather than a writer.
“I don’t write, I shout,” he declares. Today, the writer resides in Biot and invites us to discover his life journey to bring hope to the younger generation and respond to the many letters sent by the people of Biot.
“Love begins when you prefer the other over yourself,” says Martin Gray, author of the best-selling book “For Those I Loved,” published in 1971. Born Mietek Grayewski, this French-American of Polish origin, Jewish, born in Warsaw on April 27, 1922, describes in his famous work a part of his life, notably the tragedy of having lost his entire family twice. First, as a teenager in Nazi extermination camps, and then in 1970 in a fire at his home in the South of France.
This ultimate meeting will raise awareness among the greatest number about the memory of the Holocaust and thus develop the concepts of resilience and humanism through the testimony of an entire life.
