Suzanne Achache – Wiznitzer was born on June 19, 1929 in Vienna. “I journeyed across the century and Europe, it’s difficult to make it short! My mother was a scandalous women. She was going to cafés, playing cards for money and was constantly losing what she had. She died from cancer in 1937 and was buried in Vienna. In 1938, I set off for France. My father and my brother were deported in 1942. By chance, I met Madam Chesneau who was opening her door to ‘all the children we didn’t know what to do with’. At the end of the war, I stayed one year with her. Then, I was taken care of by Nathan and Hélène Samuel at the OSE organization, who gave me the opportunity to study. I have chosen medicine because ‘it helps people out’. I met the father of my four children. I became a surgeon. Not dentist. Sto-ma-to-lo-gist. And later, psychoanalyst. I have 9 grandchildren and 9 great-grandchildren.”

Mona Achache is a director and a screenwriter. She does both fictions and documentaries for cinema and television. She has 3 children and cooks alright.