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Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two former members of the Resistance testify

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2005.516.1 | RG Number: RG-60.1614 | Film ID: 3977

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    Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two former members of the Resistance testify
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    13:37 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

    13:38 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session; one witness who was scheduled to appear will not be able to appear in Lyon before June 5, 1987

    13:40 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear

    14:04 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear

    14:07 Cerdini calls witness Irène Clair, née Fremion; the witness presents herself to the court

    14:09 The witness entered the French Resistance as the secretary of a Department Chief, Lucien Bonnet, and transmitted orders from London which she decoded; she was arrested in a raid along with her colleagues on March 9, 1944, held at gunpoint, and taken to Barbie's office; Bonnet was already being held by Barbie; the witness spent a night at the Gestapo headquarters in which she could hear wolfhounds attacking screaming detainees, before being transferred to Montluc; a week later, she was brought back to Barbie's office where she saw Bonnet again, and he told her her that he had been extensively tortured by Barbie; for two months, Barbie called her from Montluc to his office, where he would beat her and ask her to identify Resistants, which she refused to do; she was eventually sent on a transport to the Romainville camp near Paris, and then, two weeks later, to Ravensbrück

    14:19 It took two weeks for the train to arrive at Ravensbrück from Romainville, during which time many in her transport fell ill; she describes the arrival at Ravensbrück and elements of daily life there; the witness fell ill and was taken to a bloc for the ill, where many had been sterilized

    14:25 President Cerdini asks the witness how she was able to identify her interrogator as Barbie; she replies that his colleagues called him by name; Cerdini asks her whether she knows who ordered her deportation, and she replies that it was Barbie himself, for he told her personally that she was, "going on a trip"

    14:28 The attorney general comments on the witness' bravery, and gives statistics regarding how many women survived Ravensbrueck

    14:32 The bailiff is called to aid the next witness, Mrs. Lesevre, in walking to the witness stand; though quite elderly, the witness refuses to sit down while testifying

    14:33 The witness, Lise Lesèvre, 86 years old, presents herself to the court; Mrs. Lesèvre is a civil party in the suit against Barbie; she was a member of the Resistance who was arrested by the Lyon Gestapo in March 1944; she was carrying classified Resistance documents including a letter for the regional leader of the Resistance leader, whose codename was Didier; the Gestapo found the letter and Lesèvre was taken to the Montluc prison, where she was interrogated and tortured by Barbie; Barbie had Lesèvre's husband and teenaged son brought into Montluc, and continued to have her tortured by several different methods; the witness refused to give Barbie any information; the witness comments on Barbie's pleasure at seeing the bodies of inmates who had been tortured

    14:47 Mrs. Lesèvre was sent a lawyer, but the lawyer did no more than read her death sentence to her in German; she appeared before a military tribunal, where she was read the death sentence again and told she was a terrorist; a German officer (who was not SS) congratulated her on her bravery

    14:51 The witness describes her last interrogations by Barbie and his men, in which they were drunk; she describes her deportation to Romainville and then to Ravensbrueck

    14:56 End of tape
    Duration
    01:23:14
    Date
    Event:  1987 May 22
    Locale
    Lyon, France
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
    Contributor
    Producer: Daniel Borgeot
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    Physical Details

    Language
    French
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Color
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    13:32:59:00 to 14:56:13:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 3977 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
      Master 3977 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
      Master 3977 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
      Master 3977 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large

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    Conditions on Access
    This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
    Copyright
    Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
    Conditions on Use
    Contact Institut National de L'Audiovisuel at internationalsales@ina.fr for permissions and licensing this film footage.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection containing 185 hours of the Barbie Trial from the Institut National De L’Audiovisuel in Paris, France in July 2005.
    Note
    Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.

    The next tape chronologically is FV 2810 (RG-60.5451)-- 22 05 87 02 -- 8 AV 48 -- AQ 80047.
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    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 5866
    Source Archive Number: 80046 [8 AV 47]
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:57:26
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