A Train in Winter (61 page)

Mauthausen, 274

Ravensbrück, 253, 255–6, 262, 273, 279, 280

Rex cinema, Paris, 164

Reynaud, Paul, 14

Ribbentrop, Joachim von, 17, 27, 78, 300

Richier, Armande, 176, 339

Richier, Marguerite, 176, 339

Richier, Odette, 176, 339

Richon, Anne, 339

Ritz, the, Paris, 109

Rolland, Romain, 32

Roma, 208, 265

Romainville, 150, 151–68, 169–74, 177, 179, 225, 292, 299, 310

Rommel, Erwin, 108

Rondeaux (Rondeaux de Montbray), France (Francine), 161, 229, 339

Rondeaux, Inspector, 1

Rosenberg, Alfred, 41

Rostaing, Georgette, 50–2,
51
, 171–2, 174–5, 212, 306, 312, 339

Rostaing, Pierre, 50–1, 52, 312

Rostaing, Pierrette, 51,
51
, 52, 172, 312

Rostkowska, Félicia, 339

Rothschild family, 19

Rottée, Lucien, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 72, 73, 74, 111, 297

Roucayrol, Denise, 339

Rouen, 3, 65–8, 72, 81, 98, 99–100, 111, 208

Rousset, David, 307

Royal Air Force, 277

Royan, 139, 140, 141, 149, 307

Roze, Suzanne, 207–8, 339

Ruffec, 3, 99

Ruju, Esterina, 339

Russian Commission, 285

Russians, 244, 245, 250, 252, 283, 284, 285

Sabail, Léonie, 339

Sabatier, Maurice, 145

Sabot, Anna, 340

Sabourault, Berthe, 340

Sachsenhausen, 179, 191, 255

Saintes, 3, 141

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 20

Saint-Lô, 306

Saint-Martin-le-Beau, 6, 87, 88, 90, 91, 216, 292

Café de l’Union, 87, 88, 89

Saint-Sévère, 137–9, 147

Salez, Raymonde, 184, 340

Sampaix, Jacques, 57

Sampaix, Lucien, 57, 60, 81–2, 108, 112, 113

Sampaix, Pierre, 57, 310

Sampaix, Simone

biographical details, 323

photographs of,
58, 155, 193

family background, 57

works for the Resistance, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 64, 82, 112–13

and her father’s death, 81, 82

arrest, 113

at police depot, 113, 114

transferred to Fresnes, 114–15

in Romainville, 153, 155, 162, 174

on the train, 175, 179

arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 184

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 191, 192,
193
, 197, 198, 199, 200, 203, 205, 208, 214, 228, 237

sent to Ravensbrück, 241

in Ravensbrück, 263, 273, 278, 280–1

in Sweden, 286

returns to France, 309–10

life after the war, 310, 323

Sampaix, Yvonne, 57, 81–2

Samuel, Maximilian, 236

SAP (Section des Affaires Politiques), 145

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 33, 298

Schmidt, Henriette, 340

Schmuckstücke
, 249 and n, 279, 282

Schumann, Dr Horst, 236, 266, 301

Schutz (SS man at Auschwitz), 228

Schutzhaft
, 111

Section des Affaires Politiques (SAP), 145

Seibert, Antoine, 340

Seignolle, Léonie, 340

Seine-Inférieure, 1, 67, 71

Senate, 13

Sérazin, Fredo, 64, 126, 127

Sergent, Gisèle, 6, 87, 89,
90
, 90, 91, 163, 216, 292

Sergent, Paul, 87, 89

Sergent, Raymonde, 6, 87–8, 89–91,
90
, 95, 116, 163, 176, 216, 286, 292, 340

Serre, Christiane, 6, 52

Serre, Jeanne (Carmen)

biographical details, 323

family background, 52

works for the Resistance, 53

arrest and imprisonment, 129

in Romanville, 152, 158, 160

on the train, 177

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 213, 242

sent to Raisko, 221

in Raisko, 238

sent back to Birkenau, 239

leaves for Ravensbrück, 240

in Ravensbrück, 249

sent to Beendorf, 257–8

sent from Beendorf to Neuengamme, 276

in Sweden, 286

after return to France, 313,
313
, 314, 323

brief references, 132, 165, 290

Serre, Louis, 52, 165

Serre, Lulu
see
Thévenin (
née
Serre), Lulu

Serre, Madame, 52–3, 53–4

Service des Étrangers, 74

Service de Travail Obligatoire, 293

Shoah
(film), 305

Siemens, 220, 247, 273, 277

Sinti, 208, 265

slave labour, 185, 187, 201–2, 220, 222–3, 246–7, 258–9, 273

Slusarczyk, Julia, 264, 273, 278, 280–1, 323–4

SNCF, 122, 294

Sobibor, 226

SOE (Special Operations Executive), 91

Soir, Le
, 27

Solomon, Hélène

biographical details, 324

works for the Resistance, 35–6, 37, 41, 42, 56, 77, 79

arrested, 103

husband is shot, 116

in La Santé, 117, 119

in Romainville, 160

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 199, 212

allowed to join group sent to Raisko, 222

in Raisko, 223–4

mentioned in broadcast, 227

sent to Ravensbrück, 241

sent to Bosch factories near Berlin, 260–1

departure from Bosch factory, 275–6

meets French soldiers and is taken to Lille, 276

life after the war, 292, 315, 324

brief references, 64–5, 102

Solomon, Jacques, 35–6, 37, 41, 56, 65, 102, 110, 116–17, 126, 260, 292

Sonderkommando
prisoners, 188 and n

Sorbonne, 34, 48–9, 77, 126, 306

Souchaud, Yvonne, 340

Souge, 134, 135, 166, 297, 311

Souques, André, 136, 146

Souques, Jeanne, 136, 297, 340

Soviet prisoners of war, 185

Soviet Union (USSR), 55, 227–8
see also
Nazi-Soviet pact

Spain, 15, 27, 133, 146, 170

Civil War, 25–6, 49, 66, 67

refugees from, 19–20, 26, 67, 92, 133

Spartico, Guisco, 68

Special Operations Executive (SOE), 91

SS

in occupied France, 17, 109, 116, 117, 134

and arrival of women from the train, 183

in Dachau, 185

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 188, 189n, 190, 191, 194, 196, 197, 199, 202, 205, 206, 208, 209, 211, 212, 213, 215, 218, 219, 220, 221, 228, 233, 234, 236, 238, 241, 272–3

in Raisko, 222, 223, 224–5

in Ravensbrück, 243, 244–5, 247–8, 250, 253, 257, 259, 261, 263, 264, 268, 269, 270, 272, 279, 280–1, 282

in Mauthausen, 275

on the train from Beendorf to Neuengamme, 276

on the march from Oranienburg, 276

on board
Cap Arcona
, 277

Stalingrad, 172, 179, 199

Stendhal:
Chartreuse de Parme
, 106

Stenia (block elder at Birkenau), 207

sterilisation

experiments, 234–5, 255

law, 233

Stock, abbé, 117, 118

Stockholm, 278

Stora, Marguerite, 340

Strafblock
, Ravensburg, 257

Strasbourg, 236

Streicher, Julius, 22

Stülpnagel, Karl Heinrich, 109, 112

Stülpnagel, Otto von, 16, 19, 55, 60, 62, 69, 70, 72, 82, 108–9, 111, 116

Stürmer
, 22

Sturnitz, General von, 13, 16

Sühnepersonen
, 151

Suhren, Fritz, 244, 250, 262, 268, 269, 279, 282, 284

Sweden, 286

Swedish Red Cross, 279

Switzerland, 15, 297, 315

Tamisé, Andrée, 136, 149, 217, 227, 257, 290, 340

Tamisé, Gilberte, 6, 136, 149, 217, 240, 249, 257–8, 276, 290,
313
, 319

Taube, Adolf, 207–8, 209, 213, 235, 240, 302

Taylor, Telford, 299

Termes d’Armagnac, 6

Texcier, Jean, 33–4

Theresienstadt, 219, 279

Thévenin, Georges, 53, 289–90

Thévenin (
née
Serre), Lulu

biographical details, 319–20

photograph,
156

family background, 52

sends baby to live with foster family, 53

works for the Resistance, 53, 80

arrest and imprisonment, 129

in Romainville, 152,
156
, 158, 160, 172

on the train, 177

arrival at Auschwitz-Birkenau, 184

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 194, 202, 204, 205, 208, 213

sent to Raisko, 221

letters sent by, 230–1, 244, 254

in Raisko, 238

leaves for Ravensbrück, 240

in Ravensbrück, 244, 249, 251, 254

sent to Beendorf, 257–8

at Beendorf, 258–9, 276

sent from Beendorf to Neuengamme, 276

in Sweden, 286

after return to France, 289–90, 292, 313,
313
, 314, 319–20

in old age, 6

brief references, 132, 165

Thévenin, Paul, 6, 53, 129, 132, 230–1, 254, 290

Thiebault, Jeanne, 340

Thiers, Adolphe, 151

Third Tokyo Convention, 63

Thomas, Edith, 13

Thorez, Maurice, 28, 285

Tillon, Charles, 136, 137

Tillon, Emilie, 271

Tillon, Germaine, 252, 271, 272, 281

Tintelin, Arthur, 80, 128, 129, 131, 176

Tondelier, Georges, 57, 113

Topf and Sons, 187, 219

torture, 4, 104, 110, 111, 116, 118, 119, 132, 135, 146, 171

Toulouse, 39

Tours, 3, 14, 25, 85, 89, 99, 195, 208, 216

Trappe, Sonderführer, 151, 152, 155, 163, 172