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An educational project at
Lycée L. S. Senghor Évreux High School
OUR STUDENTS MET
ACTORS AND WITNESSES OF
WORLD WAR II
(Clic on the portraits to know more about each eye-witness)
2014-2016
Ida GRINSPAN was déportated in 1944.
A pupil of the Lycée invited her to talk to us
Eric Rackham: the encounter that was not to be (2014)
2017
Léon GAUTIER,
A French veteran who landed at Ouistreham on D-Day
Albert FIGG joined the Territorials in September 1939.
Pupils helped translate his autobiography
2018
Paul ANDERT, A sergeant in the US Army. Three
Web-conférences were made since May 2018
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André BIAUX, A Résistant from Évreux, where our school is situated.
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William Patrick trained as a pilot. His son Ian came to tell his story
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Michel Le Baron, Account from a child in Normandy during the Second World War
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James Kunkle most kindly exchanged emails with a class group so as to share his story.
Andrée Levallois:
An indirect account from a woman who lived through the war in Normandy and Southern France
Daniel Dufailly,
A young man who refused to work for the occupying forces at the cost of his life
Rolande Dupont and her father in his French uniform
2019
Cyril Banks in his Royal Navy uniform.
An encounter at Overlord Museum
Lucien Duval and his brother near Omaha Beach, June 4, 1944
Marie Le Gand, 4 June 1944
Douglas McCreath
The story of a Cameronian shared by his son
Suzanne Altkorn shared her story via a videoconference from Germany
Elizabeth O'Donohoe: sharing
memories about growing up in London in the 1940s
Jean Hébert,
A young man going through the war by helping others
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