European Resistance Archive/European Resistance Archive (ERA)
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And there were also team leaders, themselves being deported prisoners.
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Often they were Germans, Poles.
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It was very difficult, very hard. We got lots of beatings.
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In the beginning we thought we shouldn’t take that, but we soon saw that there was no way out, as life there was so terrible.
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It was difficult to form a group.
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Those of us that had been arrested as French resistance fighters were scattered.
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They knew exactly who we were.
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It was very different from the camp in Compiègne. There we were still active, we resisted, discussed, talked.
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But here we were seperated and with all the block leaders, the Vorarbeiter, the team chiefs, the Kapos
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it was extremely difficult, as they were very loose with their batons.
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We were not necessarily amongst French people at all. Sometimes there were 2 or 3 French people in a group of 150 or 200 men.
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Most of them were Poles. They did not like us very much.
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There were Germans as well, so-called Reichsdeutsche. They had mostly been arrested for political reasons.
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Deportation to Compiègne and Auschwitz-Birkenau
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I had been under observation by the police for some time.
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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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