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Rocour, Pol

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

 

Pol Rocour, a Catholic, who was born in Saint-Georges-sur-Meuse, Belgium in 1922, the oldest of three children. He recounts growing up in Amay; German invasion in May 1940; immediate military draft; transfer to Cazères in July; returning to Amay in March 1941; distributing underground newspapers, burning mills, and damaging trains; avoiding forced labor in Germany by obtaining a factory job; sabotaging production; hiding after he was denounced; learning his father and brother were held hostage; surrendering to free them; imprisonment in Huy in November 1943; transfer to St. Leonard four days later; receiving Red Cross packages; transfer to Vught in July 1944; slave labor building railroads; transfer to Gilze Rijen, then back to Vught; improved conditions when assigned to a Philips factory; receiving packages from home; transfer to Sachsenhausen in September 1944, then Neuengamme and Hamburg-Altona; daily slave labor in a small village; pervasive deaths; a Belgian sharing food with him; hospitalization in Neuengamme; assistance from a kapo; transfer to Lübeck; boarding the ship Cap Arcona; transfer to the Athen; British bombings of prisoners ships but not his; debarkation in Neustadt; liberation by British troops; repatriation with assistance from the Red Cross; reunion with his parents and fiancée; treatment for tuberculosis in a Swiss sanatorium for five years; marriage in 1946; his daughter's birth; visiting Vught and Neustadt; and speaking in schools about his experiences. Mr. R. discusses the importance of praying daily and prisoners helping each other to his survival; the camp hierarchy and intergroup relations; and testifying against collaborators.

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

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Code interview : YA/FA/164
Date interview : 03/09/1999 - 06/09/1999 - 08/09/1999
Lieu interview : Au domicile du témoin (4540 Amay)
Durée interview : 10h
Langue interview : Français
Interviewers : Michel Rosenfeldt et Daniel Weyssow
Cameraman : Michael Dippold
Consultation : Autorisée
Indexation thématique : Oui
Séquençage interview : non

Mots-clés du témoignage :
Armée Secrète (A.S.) | Huy (prison) | La Libre Belgique clandestine | Lübeck / Cap Arcona | Neuengamme | Neustadt | Résistant / Résistante | Sachsenhausen | Saint-Léonard Liège (prison) | Vught

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