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Index

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Abetz, Otto, 17–18, 22, 41, 76, 78, 82, 84, 133

Abwehr, 17, 134, 289

Achavanne, Etienne, 24

Action Française, L’, 20

Aiglon, l’, 21

Alaterre (Resistance worker), 92

Alexandre, Jeanne, 324

Algeria, 16
see also
Algiers

Algiers, 293

Alizon, Marie, 92, 93–4,
94
, 95, 115, 162, 168, 172, 174, 203, 214, 227, 229, 242, 309, 324

Alizon, Simone (Poupette) biographical details, 319

photograph of,
94

family background, 92–3

works for the Resistance, 93–4

arrested, 94, 95

in La Santé, 115

in Romainville, 162, 168, 172, 174

arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 183

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 200, 208, 213–14, 229

family enquiries about, 227

and death of her sister, 229, 242

transferred to Raisko, 229

receives news from home, 231

moved to Ravensbrück, 240, 243

in Ravensbrück, 245–6, 248, 249, 253

sent to Beendorf, 257–8

at Beendorf, 258, 259, 260, 276

sent from Beendorf to Neuengamme, 276, 277

at a camp near Hamburg, 277

handed over to Red Cross, 277

on the journey to Stockholm, 278

arrival in France, 309

memoir written by, 309

life after the war, 319

in old age, 5–6

brief references, 7, 237

Allard, General, 284, 285

Allied High Command, 302

Allies, 91, 172, 226, 229, 252, 261, 269, 272, 276, 298, 306

Alonso, Josée, 151–2, 153, 157, 162, 191, 198–9, 204–5, 324

Alsace, 15, 16

Alype, Pierre, 133, 135

Amboise, 87–8, 311

American Red Cross, 154

Amicale des Déportés d’Auschwitz, Birkenau et des Camps de Haute-Silésie, 304

Amstetten, 274, 293

Ancre Colonial, L’ (café), La Rochelle, 141, 148

Angoulême, 3, 85, 150, 174

Annales d’Histoire Economique et Sociale
, 32

Antoine, Hélène, 324

Aragon, Louis, 22, 32, 33, 77, 115, 231

Arc de Triomphe, 11, 13, 35

Armand (Resistance worker), 144

Arvor hotel, Rennes, 92, 93, 94

Athée-sur-Cher, 88, 89

Athenée theatre, 38, 39, 315

attentisme
, 11, 56, 82, 85

Au Pilori
, 22

Auschwitz-Birkenau

origin, purpose and development, 184–9, 219–30

pictures of,
186, 190, 191, 198, 201, 207

the women arrive at, 183–4, 189–94

experience of the women in, 194–218, 220–1, 222, 225, 228–38, 239–40, 240–2, 270

rumours and questions asked about fate of the women in, 225–7

medical experiments in, 233–7

Red Army arrives at, 270

SS attempt to destroy evidence at, 272–3

Marie-Claude gives evidence at Nuremberg about, 299

war criminals brought to justice for crimes at, 301, 302

Charlotte Delbo writes about, 315–16

brief references, 291, 293, 307, 310, 311, 312, 317

Austria, 15, 22
see also
Mauthausen

Avant-Garde, L’
, 38

Avenue Foch, Paris, 42

Aylmer, Madeleine, 281

B., Yvonne, 200, 324

babies, 124, 208, 235, 266–7, 270, 281

Barbès metro station, 59–60, 61, 62, 72

Barbie, Klaus, 296

Barbusse, Henri, 32

Bastide, 136

Bataillons de la Jeunesse, 56–60, 61, 64, 70, 82, 100, 108, 111–13, 114, 136, 175, 310

Bauer, Marie-Jeanne, 241–2, 251, 270, 291, 320

BBC, 23, 35, 226, 227

Beaune-la-Rolande camp, 124–5

Beauvoir, Simone de, 33, 298

Beendorf, 258–60, 276, 309

Beer, Hélène, 122

Bègles, 136

Belsen
see
Bergen-Belsen

Benda, Julian, 33

Bergen-Belsen, 270, 294, 307

Bergin, Gabrielle, 325

Berlin, 108, 240, 260, 272, 273, 285

Bernadotte, Count, 279

Bernburg an der Saale, 262

Beskine, Eugenia, 325

Besseyre, Antoinette, 320

Bettelheim, Bruno, 315

Bibault, Antoine (Antoinette), 161, 196, 325

Bierge, Félicienne, 206, 307, 310–11, 320

Binder (SS woman), 247

Binz, Dorothea, 257, 282, 302

Birkenau
see
Auschwitz-Birkenau Biver, André, 57, 59, 112, 113, 114, 115, 153

Blanc, Rosette, 230, 325

Blateau, Claudine, 320

Blech, Yvonne, 325

Bloch, Claudette, 223, 238

Bloch, France, 64, 65, 75, 126–7,
127
, 153–4, 307

Bloch, Jean-Richard, 42, 64, 126

Bloch, Marc, 32

Blockältesten
, 188–9 and n

Blum, Léon, 25, 33, 40, 67, 75, 142

Boemelberg, Major, 60

Bois de Lardy, 58, 61

Bolleau, Emma, 139, 140,
140
, 150, 177,
193
, 199, 214, 231, 242, 325

Bolleau, Hélène

biographical details, 320

photograph of,
140

family background, 139

works for the Resistance, 139, 140–1

arrest and imprisonment, 149–50

in Romainville, 174

on the train, 177

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 196, 199, 203, 206, 211, 214, 228, 231, 242

in Ravensbrück, 253–4, 271, 273, 278, 279, 282, 283

in Sweden, 286

after return to France, 307, 308–9, 310, 320

Bolleau, Roger, 139, 140

Bonenfant, Josée, 325

Bonnafon, Germaine, 136–7

Bonnard, Yvonne, 325

Bonsergent (executed engineer), 40

Bordeaux, 14, 65, 69, 70, 72, 81, 95, 101, 111, 133–6, 144, 145, 146, 150, 164–5, 166, 227, 290, 292, 308, 310, 313

Bormann, Martin, 300

Bosch factories, 260, 275

Bösel, Greta, 269

Boudet barracks, Bordeaux, 150

Bouillard, Léona, 195, 325

Boulet, Alice, 325

Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris, 32, 49

Bourges, 85, 123

Bousquet, René, 121, 296

Brabander, François, 170, 177, 191

Brabander, Hélène, 170, 177, 191, 200, 325

Brabander, Romuald, 170, 177, 191

Brabander, Sophie, 170, 177, 191, 200, 325

Brassilach, Robert, 41, 68, 298

Brauchtisch, General von, 13

Bräuning, Edmund, 257

Bret, Georgette, 325–6

Brigades Spéciales, 72, 73, 92, 96, 97, 98, 99, 103, 107, 110–11, 113, 126, 127, 128, 129, 147, 150, 170, 296, 297, 308

Britain, 227–8
see also
London

British Expeditionary Force, 11

Brittany, 92–4, 95, 313

Brugal, Simone, 326

Bruller, Jean
see
Vercors

Brustlein, Gilbert, 68

Buenos Aires, 76–7, 101, 309

Bulletin de la France Combattante
, 31

Bureau, Marcelle, 326

Bureau for Foreigners and Jewish Affairs, 75

Cadras, Félix, 99, 104, 110, 118

Caen, 60, 81, 82, 306

Caen, Julien, 163

Caesar, Joachim, 221, 222, 223, 224, 301

Café de l’Union, Saint-Martin-le-Beau, 87, 88, 89

Cagoule movement, 57

Cailbault, Alice, 326 ‘Canada’, 211, 215, 217, 220, 223, 233, 238, 239

Canadian Red Cross, 279

Canaris, Admiral, 17

Cantelaube, Germaine, 326

Cap Arcona
(boat), 277

Carré, Yvonne, 326

Casanova, Danielle

biographical details, 326

photographs of,
48, 53

as communist activist before the war, 44–5

works in the Resistance, 46–7, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53, 56, 61, 63, 65, 74, 83, 96