Franz B. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Franz B., a non-Jew, who was born in Péruwelz, Belgium in 1924. He recalls moving to Congo in 1932, where his father was a gold miner; his mother's death nine days after giving birth to his younger sister; returning to Belgium with his sister in 1935; living with his maternal aunt; attending school in Mons; German invasion in May 1940; military draft; transport to Toulouse; working on a farm for three months; repatriation in August; returning to school; joining the Resistance in October 1941; distributing flyers at night; working as an engineer in a chemical company beginning in fall 1942; organizing a Resistance unit among his co-workers; registering at the train station to leave for mandatory forced labor in Germany in March 1943, then going into hiding (the authorities thought he was in Germany); obtaining false papers; hiding with a women who also hid a Jewish boy, whom he involved in the Resistance; hiding with other resistants in Ghlin; finding another hiding place for the Jewish boy; moving to Borinage; hiding in Dinant, then returning to Borinage; arrest on August 1, 1943; imprisonment at Avenue Louise with other Resistants; violent interrogations; transfer to St. Gilles; a head wound from a beating resulting in two days of unconsciousness; solitary confinement for ten days; receiving a Red Cross package; and transfer to Essen in November, then to Esterwegen as a "Nacht und Nebel" political prisoner.

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