European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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When the Communist Party and leftist organizations were banned and had to go underground,
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I was known to the police and was being watched.
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On October 21st, 1941, they knocked on my door at four o’clock in the morning and I was arrested bay French and German police.
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I was taken to Rouen, along with another 100 resistance fighters from the who had been arrested the same night.
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We were interrogated, but not too harshly. We were not obliged to talk about things we didn’t want to.
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Then we were taken to the camp of Compiègne and from there to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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In Compiègne we were treated as hostages.
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It happened several times that comrades were taken away to be executed for attacks that had happened.
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On July 6th, 1942 we were taken to a destination unknown.
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We stayed in Compiègne for about 8 months. We were arrested on October 21st, 1941.
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Then they took us to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In Compiègne we were already hostages.
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That means when an attack had been, they would come and take some of our comrades.
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I escaped this fate like another few - but they would come and take some of our comrades to be executed,
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as there had been this attack the night or the day before.
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The following morning, at four o’clock, we were called up by buildings, as usual.
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We were loaded up into the trains and we left to a destination unknown.
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What we felt was a certain fear, because we didn’t know where we were taken to.
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We were led away in groups of ten. Ten people could easily be shot half an hour later.
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They loaded us up in the animal wagons and we were taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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You know, we arrived in Auschwitz. Auschwitz consisted of old barracks, big buildings.
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