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Broche, Yvonne

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Yvonne Broche was born in Pipaix, Belgium in 1918. She recounts attending public school; completing advanced degrees in nursing school in Tournai; mobilization as a nurse; assignment to a military hospital in Nieuwpoort; evacuation to Avilley, Nantes, then a village in France; caring for a friend's five young daughters; transfer to Rochefort; working as a head nurse; returning to Belgium two months later; working at a hospital; hiding resistance members; the Red Cross and a local nobleman arranging for them to hide Jewish children; helping transport twenty-one Jewish children from Ath; hiding a Jewish physician; receiving supplies from the Red Cross; a German raid in 1944; hiding some of the children but having to surrender others; and liberation by United States troops. Ms. B. notes her brothers' participation in the Resistance; never being able to learn the fate of the children who were taken; saving over one hundred Jewish children in the hospital; and continuing contact with some of them.

(Copyright: Fortunoff Video Archives for Holocaust Testimonies - Yale)

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Code interview : YA/FA/161
Date interview : 21/06/1999
Lieu interview : Au domicile du témoin (1080 Bruxelles)
Durée interview : 3h
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Frédérique Nuthals
Cameraman : Michaël Dippold
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Armée Secrète (A.S.) | Beloeil (château) | Résistant / Résistante

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