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Paradis, Yvonne

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Description de l'interview extraite du site US Fortunoff / Biographie à  venir

 

Yvonne Paradis was born in Havré, Belgium in 1912. She recounts her father becoming an invalid in World War I; completing teacher training in 1930; her father's death in 1933; marriage in 1935; moving to Antwerp in 1938; participating with her husband in anti-fascist activities; his military draft; German invasion on May 10, 1940; fleeing to Havré; her husband's return; participating in the Resistance; hiding using false papers; visiting her husband in Tertre; his arrest in December 1941 and execution in February 1942; hiding with a friend, then with an aunt in Brussels; working as a Resistance courier; arrest in January 1943; incarceration in St. Gilles; corresponding with her mother; receiving Red Cross packages; transfer to St. Leonard two months later; deportation to Mesum in March 1943; forced labor preparing food; transfer a year later to Gross Strehlitz, Hof, Donauwörth, Ravensbrück, then Aichach; liberation by United States troops; hospitalization in Heilbronn and Nancy; repatriation; living with her mother; working for an organization in Mons and Brussels helping former political prisoners; and termination for organizing a demonstration against a former collaborator in the organization. Ms. P. discusses her trial in Donauwörth when she was condemned to death; relations among prisoners, guards, and officials; continuing close friendships formed in prisons and camps; health problems resulting from her experiences; having her husband reburied in Havré next to her father's grave; and speaking at schools.

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

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Code interview : YA/FA/126
Date interview : 22/01/1997, 03/02/1997 et 10/02/1997
Lieu interview : Centre Audiovisuel de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles
Durée interview : 11h26
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt
Cameraman : Adrien Antoniol
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : non
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Aachen / Aix-la-Chapelle (prison) | Aichach (prison) | Donauwoerth (prison) | Essen (prison) | Front de l’Indépendance (F.I.) | Gross-Strehlitz (prison) | Mesum (prison) | Nacht und Nebel (N.N.) | Partisans armés / Armée belge des Partisans | Résistant / Résistante | Saint Gilles (prison) | Saint-Léonard Liège (prison) | Service de Renseignement et d’Action (S.R.A.)

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