us-005578-irn1004898
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date: 1987 June 01
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identifier: irn1004898
note: Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
scope and content: 13:42 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 13:43 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session 13:45 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear 14:12 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement, explaining that he refuses to appear; one of the witnesses scheduled to appear has not responded to contact attempts, and is not present 14:16 President Cerdini calls the first witness, Mr. Henri Borgel, to the stand; the witness presents himself and is sworn in 14:18 The witness' father owned a candy factory, and on April 6, 1944, he saw several trucks full of children drive into the factory's central courtyard. Though the witness did not know it at the time, the children had just been taken from Izieu. He saw German officers descend from the trucks and ask to speak with the factory owner (the witness' father). While the trucks refueled in the courtyard, the witness ran 3 km to a nearby village, and alerted a local Resistance leader to what was happening; the Resistance leader told him that there was not enough time to subvert the Germans' plan to transport the Izieu children East, and when the witness returned home to the factory, the trucks were gone 14:21 President Cerdini asks the witness to provide detail regarding the candy factory and why the German trucks stopped there; he asks for clarification regarding one of the children, who was the nephew of a woman working in the factory, and who was allowed to leave the other children with his aunt 14:25 President Cerdini asks calls the next witness, Mrs. Edith Klebinder, née Muller, to the stand; she presents herself to the court and is sworn in 14:26 Mrs. Klebinder testifies; she was arrested in Lyon on March 20, 1944, in a UGIF office on the Rue de l'Hotel de Ville in Lyon; she…
title: Barbie Trial -- Day 14 -- Witnesses testify