European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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We organized ourselves, trying to find places where we could secretly meet,
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where two or three of us could meet, maybe four, never more than four.
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We would meet in a basement or at friends’ not known for their political activities, but willing to help.
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They would let us in. We’d arrive at different times.
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But then there was also the need to hide the material, the mimeograph, the typewriter etc…
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We had to be careful with all of that.
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There were various newspaper publications in the Rouen region,
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talking about the number of political activists being arrested. One had to be very careful.
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We had a certain amount of support in the population.
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Some people said we shouldn’t do that, or when we were arrested, they’d say:
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“They shouldn’t have done that”, but others did support us, some of them very quietly because they were afraid.
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If the police detected a connection between a person and well-known political activist, you could be arrested.
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It was dangerous for us as well as for the people we’d give the material to - if they were caught by the police etc. It was very difficult.
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First political engagements
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I started working in a factory in 1934/1935. And then were the big days of 1936.
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It was then I joined the labor movement. I participated in the big strikes of 1936. I was 16, worked in a factory.
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Later on, in 1937/1938 I joined the Communist Youth Movement.
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There you could fight for your demands.
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My friends at the time asked me, “Why don’t you join the Communist Youth Movement?” So I did.
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In 1936 we participated in the Trade Union’s activities. We participated in the strikes and then I joined the Communist Youth Movement.
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