us-005578-irn1004892
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date: 1987 May 22
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note: Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files. The next tape chronologically is FV 2810 (RG-60.5451)-- 22 05 87 02 -- 8 AV 48 -- AQ 80047.
scope and content: 13:37 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear 13:38 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session; one witness who was scheduled to appear will not be able to appear in Lyon before June 5, 1987 13:40 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:04 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear 14:07 Cerdini calls witness Irène Clair, née Fremion; the witness presents herself to the court 14:09 The witness entered the French Resistance as the secretary of a Department Chief, Lucien Bonnet, and transmitted orders from London which she decoded; she was arrested in a raid along with her colleagues on March 9, 1944, held at gunpoint, and taken to Barbie's office; Bonnet was already being held by Barbie; the witness spent a night at the Gestapo headquarters in which she could hear wolfhounds attacking screaming detainees, before being transferred to Montluc; a week later, she was brought back to Barbie's office where she saw Bonnet again, and he told her her that he had been extensively tortured by Barbie; for two months, Barbie called her from Montluc to his office, where he would beat her and ask her to identify Resistants, which she refused to do; she was eventually sent on a transport to the Romainville camp near Paris, and then, two weeks later, to Ravensbrück 14:19 It took two weeks for the train to arrive at Ravensbrück from Romainville, during which time many in her transport fell ill; she describes the arrival at Ravensbrück and elements of daily life there; the witness fell ill and was taken to a bloc for the ill, where many had been sterilized 14:25 President Cerdini asks the witness how she was able to identify her interrogator as Barbie; she replies that his colleagues called him by name; Cerdi…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two former members of the Resistance testify