us-005578-irn1004896
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date: 1987 May 26
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note: Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
scope and content: 16:07 The next witness, Mrs. Raymonde Guyon, presents herself to the court and is sworn in; the witness describes her participation in the dissemination of clandestine Resistance newspapers during the war, while in high school and then university; her fiancé at that time met law professors who were involved in the Resistance and they both became formally involved through these professors; she describes creating false papers, with which entire families of Jews were able to escape to Switzerland, and outlines the challenges involved in writing, printing, and distributing the newspaper 'Témoignage Chrétien' ('Christian Testimony) clandestinely 16:12 Mrs. Guyon describes the infiltration of 'Témoignage Chrétien' by a Gestapo agent; her husband's arrest and her subsequent attempts to warn her network; her own arrest by plainclothes Gestapo agents; imprisonment at Montluc and repeated interrogation by Barbie, who threatened to arrest her parents if she and her husband would not speak; Barbie interrogated Mrs. Guyon and her husband together, and he threatened to kill her husband in front of her 16:21 The witness describes her deportation from Montluc to the Romainville transit camp and then to Ravensbrueck; her arrival in Ravensbrueck and the terrors witnessed there; her subsequent departure on a work transport to a salt mine and its adjacent subterranean V2 missile factory; she describes daily life in the mine and factory, particularly the lack of hygiene 16:32 The witness describes the forced evacuation of the camp by train, which seemed to travel randomly through the countryside without destination; the women ate and drank almost nothing for 12 days, and each morning were told to throw from the train the bodies of those who had died the previous night; they arrived at a police camp in Hamburg, where they were forced to dig mass graves; she was then sent on another train to the Danish border, where the Danish Red Cross fed them and transported them to freedom in Sweden 1…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- A witness and a civil party testify