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Ms-142: World War Ii Correspondence Of Clarence And Helen Haldeman, Devin Mckinney
Ms-142: World War Ii Correspondence Of Clarence And Helen Haldeman, Devin Mckinney
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The bulk of the letters in the collection were written by Clarence and Helen Haldeman between 1943 and 1946, while Clarence was being trained at various bases by the Army Air Corps, and later serving in a bomber squadron in the Pacific Theater of Operations during World War II.
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La Grande Misère / Great Misery, Maisie Renault, Jeanne Armstrong , Translator
La Grande Misère / Great Misery, Maisie Renault, Jeanne Armstrong , Translator
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In June 1942 Maisie Renault and her sister Isabelle were arrested in Paris by the Gestapo for their activities in support of the French Résistance cell directed by their brother Gilbert Renault, known by the code-name “Colonel Rémy.” Over the next two years they were held at La Santé prison in Paris, at Fresnes Prison, south of the city, at Fort de Romainville on the outskirts, and at the Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp in northeast France.
In August 1944 they were deported to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in northern Germany, opened in 1939 and housing mainly women and children. By 1944 …