en: lucien-ducastel: chapter-7: c: 7 title: "Liberation at Auschwitz; coming home" subtitles: sequence-1: s: 1 from: "00:00:00,11" to: "00:00:03,27" text: "Liberation came in 1945." sequence-2: s: 2 from: "00:00:03,27" to: "00:00:12,19" text: "But it wasn’t quite that simple because there were all these" sequence-3: s: 3 from: "00:00:12,19" to: "00:00:14,08" text: ~ sequence-4: s: 4 from: "00:00:14,08" to: "00:00:23,06" text: "Kapos that had taken on this bad habit of beating and massacring and liquidating people." sequence-5: s: 5 from: "00:00:23,06" to: "00:00:29,00" text: "They played this role until the end. So again we lost many people." sequence-6: s: 6 from: "00:00:29,00" to: "00:00:35,12" text: "Out of the 1175 of us deportees I think 19 returned." sequence-7: s: 7 from: "00:00:35,12" to: "00:00:38,22" text: ~ sequence-8: s: 8 from: "00:00:38,22" to: "00:00:48,18" text: "Gradually we felt a certain degree of liberation, but we were in such a state, we barely reacted." sequence-9: s: 9 from: "00:00:48,18" to: "00:01:01,09" text: "Take my case: I weighed 70kg/72kg upon my arrival, I used to do exercise, to bike, I was strong." sequence-10: s: 10 from: "00:01:01,09" to: "00:01:08,21" text: "In the end I had reached half my weight: 35kg/36kg." sequence-11: s: 11 from: "00:01:08,21" to: "00:01:22,29" text: "Under those conditions, so weak, things don’t work the same way anymore, including reactions and the way the brain works." sequence-12: s: 12 from: "00:01:22,29" to: "00:01:31,20" text: "But we also started to take deep breaths of fresh air, telling ourselves that it was over." sequence-13: s: 13 from: "00:01:31,20" to: "00:01:32,23" text: ~ sequence-14: s: 14 from: "00:01:32,23" to: "00:01:45,05" text: "When we were liberated, they put us onto wagons, depending on the region we were going to." sequence-15: s: 15 from: "00:01:45,05" to: "00:01:55,15" text: "I went back to Rouen. There were three or four of us. We had lost hundreds of friends." sequence-16: s: 16 from: "00:01:55,15" to: "00:01:57,03" text: ~ sequence-17: s: 17 from: "00:01:57,03" to: "00:02:09,12" text: "Upon our arrival there were ambulances waiting for us, taking us where we told them to. In my case, that was to my parents." sequence-18: s: 18 from: "00:02:09,12" to: "00:02:10,02" text: ~ sequence-19: s: 19 from: "00:02:10,02" to: "00:02:20,09" text: "The arrival at home was different for each of us. The parents were all different from each other of course." sequence-20: s: 20 from: "00:02:20,09" to: "00:02:23,13" text: ~ sequence-21: s: 21 from: "00:02:23,13" to: "00:02:31,21" text: "I arrived home in the morning and my mother was there." sequence-22: s: 22 from: "00:02:31,21" to: "00:02:40,17" text: "She was a textile worker, but they sometimes had days off, and she was home. Ah! That was …!" sequence-23: s: 23 from: "00:02:40,17" to: "00:02:53,06" text: "My father arrived in the evening. He was a coppersmith, working very hard. He was also very firm." sequence-24: s: 24 from: "00:02:53,06" to: "00:02:54,29" text: "He said:" sequence-25: s: 25 from: "00:02:54,29" to: "00:02:56,03" text: ~ sequence-26: s: 26 from: "00:02:56,03" to: "00:03:01,05" text: "“So there you are! Where are you coming from?”" sequence-27: s: 27 from: "00:03:01,05" to: "00:03:13,14" text: "Quite nice. That was how he was. I had already imagined it would be that way. But things got straightened out in the end." sequence-28: s: 28 from: "00:03:13,14" to: "00:03:14,15" text: ~ sequence-29: s: 29 from: "00:03:14,15" to: "00:03:25,09" text: "I had been called to the police headquarters because a family was asking for information about their son." sequence-30: s: 30 from: "00:03:25,09" to: "00:03:33,00" text: "I hesitated for a long time, but finally I decided to go, as it was to help." sequence-31: s: 31 from: "00:03:33,00" to: "00:03:44,17" text: "When I walked into the police office, one of these individuals who had arrested me, entered." sequence-32: s: 32 from: "00:03:44,17" to: "00:03:48,11" text: ~ sequence-33: s: 33 from: "00:03:48,11" to: "00:03:54,11" text: "I did a huge leap, with my 35kg at the time, yelling at the police officer:" sequence-34: s: 34 from: "00:03:54,11" to: "00:04:01,09" text: "“Ask that cop what he did in the night of October 21st, 1941!” I made a big fuss." sequence-35: s: 35 from: "00:04:01,09" to: "00:04:05,08" text: "The officer calmed me down and sent the other one out."