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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

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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
(clic on his photo to know more)
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André BIAUX, A Résistant from Évreux, where our school is situated. 
(Click on the photograph to know more)
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William Patrick trained as a pilot. His son Ian came to tell his story
(click on the photo to know more)
Michel Le Baron, Account from a child in Normandy during the Second World War
(click on the photography to know more)
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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 
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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

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Cyril Banks in his Royal Navy uniform.

An encounter at Overlord Museum

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Lucien Duval and his brother near Omaha Beach, June 4, 1944
Marie Le Gand, 4 June 1944
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Douglas McCreath
The story of a Cameronian shared by his son
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Suzanne Altkorn shared her story via a videoconference from Germany
Elizabeth O'Donohoe: sharing
memories about growing up in London in the 1940s
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Jean Hébert,
A young man going through the war by helping others
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