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Falise, Julie

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Julie Falise was born in Schaerbeek, Belgium in 1908. She recalls her family's affluence and Catholicism; memories of World War I; living in Louvain; her father's accidental death when she was thirteen; briefly living in Du?sseldorf with family friends; returning to Brussels; marriage in 1925; her son's birth in 1928; separation from her husband in 1939; living with her mother; opening a fashion shop; German invasion; closing her shop; a friend hiding Jews; working as a Resistance courier; arrest in April 1941; incarceration in St. Gilles; friendship with cellmates; transfer to Amberg in September, then to Charlottenburg in May 1943; trial and conviction; return to Amberg, then to Lubeck, back to Amberg, then Rostock; deportation to Ravensbruck; separation with others designated as "Nacht und Nebel" for some time; slave labor sorting possessions of murdered prisoners; stealing clothes for herself and others; becoming indifferent to corpses everywhere; hospitalization for ten days; two prisoners giving birth; transfer to Mauthausen in open rail cars; assistance from Spanish prisoners; liberation by the Red Cross; transport to Switzerland, Hotel Lutetia in Paris, then Brussels; reunion with her mother and son; difficulties adjusting to normal life; and marriage. Ms. F. discusses relations between prisoners; the importance of helping each other; testifying against the man who arrested her; nightmares; reluctance to share her experiences with her son and grandsons; and visits to Ravensbruck and Mauthausen.

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

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Code interview : YA/FA/059
Date interview : 30/01/1995
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 5h14
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Elisabeth Inchusta et Hessel Daalder
Cameraman : Andrien Antoniol
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : Oui
Séquençage interview : Oui

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Hamburg/Hambourg (prison) | Lübeck (prison) | Martiny–Daumerie (Service de renseignement) | Mauthausen | Mohabit / Berlin (prison) | Nacht und Nebel (N.N.) | Ravensbrück | Résistant / Résistante | Rostock (prison) | Saint Gilles (prison)

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