European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
-
Later, when the president of the association passed away,
-
friends of mine pushed me into the presidency saying:
-
“You were so active during the resistance; you were responsible for the liberation of Nanterre together with Louis Meunier, etc…”
-
To quote Bertolt Brecht: “the lap of the repulsive beast is still fertile”;
-
we had not and have not totally liberated ourselves from fascism.
-
Therefore we felt the need to inform and to act.
-
In school history books, there was very little information about the time:
-
General De Gaulle’s speech and the Shoah.
-
That is very important, but it is not enough to explain the complexity of World War II.
-
We were asked by history teachers to talk about our experience in class.
-
We thought it was important to do even more
-
and started organizing school trips to different memorials, the places where Nazi crimes were committed.
-
We organized school trips to Oradour s/Glane,
-
to Struthof, the only Nazi concentration camp there was in France, in Alsace.
-
We took classes of three different schools to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
-
We want to show young people the atrocities of racism and xenophobia, the total absence of freedom.
-
There are several of us.
-
One comrade, Lucien Ducastel had been deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
-
We also do this in memory of our comrades who died in Auschwitz.
-
Today more than ever it is necessary to do this work, because in Europe
No more segments to load.
Loading more segments…
© 2009-2024 WebTranslateIt Software S.L. All rights reserved.
Terms of Service
·
Privacy Policy
·
Security Policy