For this exhibition, we wanted to parallel History and stories of men, images of each one of us, of quiet people, hustled by the Second World War, until acting heroically for some, as torturers for others. We wanted to evoke lives, sufferings, deaths and destinies in these exceptional times.

First, we wanted to evoke the everyday life before the war using family pictures, daily work, bistro's talks, happy images of five real people. Then these same people in times of war: resistance or black market, denouncement, arrest, prison, revolt, repression, death camps, the souvenir.

We wanted that everyone feels concerned, to see that in such circumstances they could have acted in the same way. We wished to put emphasis on the fact that events are only the acceleration and the crystallization of the destiny of each one.

We, we can see it; we are alive. It is good to discover and share this humanity in the emotion of such historical moments.