Nearly 30 years after losing her parents five days apart, Jordana Arazi returns to the incredible heroic story of her mother, the late Ivette, who as a 12-year-old joined the French underground and helped her older sisters and family save hundreds of Jewish children during World War II. the second.
On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, the documentary “Jordan’s Journey” (director: Eilat Heller, producer: Tzafrir Kochonovsky) will be broadcast on HOT8, in which she returns to France and discovers new details about the rescue activities led by brave women, including her family members.
The film was initiated by TV and radio man Yoav Ginai and inspired by the story of Yvette Arazi, he also wrote the song “My Heroine” which is released at the same time as the film and is dedicated to her memory.
The song is a collaboration with Shem Olam – the center for documenting, researching and commemorating the Holocaust, headed by Rabbi Avraham Krieger, which among other things deals with the commemoration of Jews who worked to save Jews during the war and is intended to raise awareness of the issue.
The song was composed by Leah Shabbat and was produced and recorded by musician Yoni Talbi, this is the second collaboration between him and Arazi.
Jordana Arazi: “The song and the film deal with the heroic story of my mother and her older sisters Fanny and her mother, their older brother George Loanze who was one of the commanders of the underground and a national hero of France and even cousin Marcel Marceau, but like our family story there are hundreds and thousands more stories. The heroism of Jews who worked to save Jews during the war, with great courage, life-threatening, sophistication and heroism. These are our heroes and it is worth telling their story. This is why, in parallel with the personal and family film, With infinite love and longing for my mother, Ivette Arazi of the late Luanza family, “you will forever be my heroine.”