European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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You are all human beings, you can have dark-skinned friends, why not?
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That will also help you to work better, work more seriously.
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Be fraternal with each other no matter what origin you are from.
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Liberation at Auschwitz; coming home
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Liberation came in 1945.
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But it wasn’t quite that simple because there were all these
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Kapos that had taken on this bad habit of beating and massacring and liquidating people.
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They played this role until the end. So again we lost many people.
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Out of the 1175 of us deportees I think 19 returned.
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Gradually we felt a certain degree of liberation, but we were in such a state, we barely reacted.
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Take my case: I weighed 70kg/72kg upon my arrival, I used to do exercise, to bike, I was strong.
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In the end I had reached half my weight: 35kg/36kg.
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Under those conditions, so weak, things don’t work the same way anymore, including reactions and the way the brain works.
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But we also started to take deep breaths of fresh air, telling ourselves that it was over.
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When we were liberated, they put us onto wagons, depending on the region we were going to.
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I went back to Rouen. There were three or four of us. We had lost hundreds of friends.
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Upon our arrival there were ambulances waiting for us, taking us where we told them to. In my case, that was to my parents.
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The arrival at home was different for each of us. The parents were all different from each other of course.
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I arrived home in the morning and my mother was there.
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She was a textile worker, but they sometimes had days off, and she was home. Ah! That was …!
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