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The ASTM, Action Solidarité Tiers Monde,
the ASTI, Association de Soutien aux Travailleurs immigrés,
the CDMH, Documentation Centre on Human Migrations,
and the CLAE, Comité de Liaison et d'Action des Etrangers
invite you to the preview of the film Days of Glory by TRachid Bouchareb, Best Actor Award, Cannes 2006
Wednesday 20 September, 7.00 pm
cinema Utopolis, Luxembourg-Kirchberg
This event is organised in the framework of the European Week of Migration Heritage, which takes places from the 8 to the 15 October 2006
This film retraces the history of the colonial French troops which participated to the liberation of France and Europe during the 2nt world war. But this didn't spare them the injustices from their "European" companions and also form the military institution itself.
And which is the place of Luxembourg in all this ?
On 10 May 1940 the troop of the Nazi Germany invaded Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands, with the aim of bypassing the Maginot line that France had erected along its Eastern border.
With the idea of delaying or even making deviate the German attack, the French government asks to its troops to offer resistance to assailants by going forward.
The first brigade of "sphahis" runs towards the Luxembourg plain - this, in front of the German "Stukas" and under the fire of some German paratroopers.
About 90 soldiers of this "colonial troop", which were composed mainly by people form the Maghreb, fell on the Luxembourg territory and more than 2000 in Belgium. They rest, mostly anonymously in the cemeteries of the South of the country. |
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| celebration |
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| Cinéma Utolpolis - Kirchberg, Luxembourg |
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from 20/09/2006 to 20/09/2006
from 19:00 to 21:00 |
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whom ? |
Centre de Documentation sur les Migrations Humaines
Gare-Usines
3481 Dudelange
00 352 51 69 85 1
00 352 51 69 85 5
Luxembourg |
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 migcendo@pt.lu |
| http://www.migcendo.lu/index.html |
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