European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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The French and German police came to arrest us in the middle of the night.
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They came at four, five o’clock in the morning, knocked on the door.
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My father had barely opened the door; they had already arrived on the second floor, as I slept up there.
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All went very quickly: getting dressed, going downstairs. That was on October 21st, 1941.
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They took us to Rouen and started interrogating us, asking us various questions.
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We were very careful to say as little as possible.
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Then we were taken to a kangaroo court in Rouen.
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We knew they would never let us go, but we did not know what was going to happen after imprisonment.
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I knew the risk I was taking. But to be able to hide you needed a place to do so.
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Many people were not ready to put us up, even if they were friends. They were scared of the police, of being arrested as well.
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It was very difficult, so I stayed with my parents.
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When I’d come home my father would give me a beating.
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I didn’t have the possibility to hide. I was getting ready to do so.
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But I was arrested two or three weeks before I was about to leave and really go undercover.
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Semi-clandestine activities 1939-41
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The reason we distributed these leaflets was to alert the population and the workers in the factories.
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We distributed leaflets in front of the factories and in different neighborhoods.
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Often we would do that at night. But at night there were also police patrols.
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So there would be two or three of us to distribute the leaflets and two or three to watch out for the police.
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We had to be very careful.
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