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January |
Three Resistance movements combine to form Mouvements Unis de la Resistance (MUR)
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May |
National Council of the Resistance (CNR) formed
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July 20 |
Geneviève is arrested after going to mass at Notre Dame de Paris. Apprehended in a roundup at a bookstore used by the Resistance, she is brought in front of a French police inspector working for the Nazis. He turns her over to the Gestapo. At Gestapo headquarters, her interrogator beats her around the head and on the ears. She will later become nearly deaf as a result of this treatment.
Several months later at Fresnes prison outside Paris, Geneviève hears a voice call out, “Violaine is calling Geneviève.” This is how she learns that her friend Jacqueline d’Alincourt (Jacqueline Pery) has also been arrested and imprisoned.
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January |
Six months after her arrest, Geneviève is deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp in a cattle car. The trip lasts four days and four nights. Before the trains pull out, she and other prisoners devise an escape plan, but their comrades dissuade them. They are told that a convoy of men has recently left and the Germans have threatened to kill five men for every woman who escapes. The women fear for for the lives of their sons and husbands on those trains.
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February 3 |
Geneviève arrives at Ravensbruck.
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June 6 |
D-day invasion of Normandy
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Summer |
Geneviève’s labor in the sewing workshop slows as a result of corneal ulcers affecting her sight. After repeated beatings by the SS guard, she is in terrible shape, and friends fear she may die. Through intricate maneuvering, they succeed in having her transferred to another work detail, where other prisoners are able to hide her so she can rest.
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August 15 |
Allied landing in southern France
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August 25 |
Liberation of Paris
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October 28 |
Geneviève is locked up in the camp prison located outside the camp wall. She is unaware that Heinrich Himmler, the Nazi leader responsible for organizing the mass extermination in the death camps, hopes to use members of the de Gaulle family as bargaining chips with General de Gaulle in the impending defeat of Germany. She remains in near total despair with no news of the fate of her friends inside the camp. Likewise, they have no news of her.
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March |
Two SS officers and a female guard lead Geneviève and an American deportee across Germany. Their trip is circuitous. They are imprisoned briefly on two more occasions but eventually set free. She returns home in April 1945.
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May 7 |
Unconditional surrender of Germany
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| Geneviève marries Bernard Anthonioz. They have four children.
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Geneviève marries Bernard
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Geneviève and her children
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