France reflects the 80th anniversary marks of Nazi surrender, wwii survivors of their ghost memories

In May 1945, during World War II, Germany’s Nazi forces officially surrendered, marking the end of the war. This year, the 80th anniversary of Nazi has been surrendered to the concerned forces.
As France Preparations to celebrate the anniversary, the survivors living through the war recalled the pain they had experienced. During Nazi occupation, many lived in fear and were treated brutally. Jews and other groups were sent to the death camps. For the remaining people, this anniversary is not only about victory, but also the time to remember the pain and disadvantage they had tolerated.
In May 1940, Nazi forces began attacking France. Among those caught in anarchy were 15 -year -old Jineeviv Perrier, who had to run away from his village in North Eastern France to avoid advancing German soldiers like millions of others. By June, France surrendered to the Nazis.
Three years later, 15-year-old Esther Sencot was arrested by the French police and the Aushwitz-Burchenu was deported. In 1944, 19 year old Ginnet Colinka Was sent to the same death camp.
Avoided war, now close to 100 years of age, share their stories set to keep the memory of war alive and pass their lessons on future generations.

Geneviève Perrier:

99 -year -old Jineeviv Perier was one of the citizens under Nazi possession. “We were afraid,” Parier recalled that she had described the incident where she ran on a bicycle with her mother, taking only a small journey bag, while her uncle took a car pulled from a horse on the streets of eastern France.
Talking to AP reporters, he said, “Many people were running, everyone was running in the child’s vehicles.
Periyar and others hid in an area when they heard the bombers aircraft. “Mother had a white cap. Some said to her: ‘Take out your hat!” And when I saw a huge bomb near my head.
Later he took a train and took refuge in a small town in South -West France for a few months, which is in a region ruled by a colleague. Vichi Governance, before his mother decided that he would go back home – only to stay in the rigorous Nazi possession.
“Resistance was large in our territory,” Parier said, she was ready to join the interior (FFI) French forces. Three women of FFI were caught and tortured by Nazis, a few kilometers from their home, he said.
“My mother kept telling me: ‘No, I don’t want you to leave. I have no husband, so if you go …” she said. “She was right, because all three of them were killed.”
Through everything he passed through, Perrier captured his feeling of resistance. Even in front of fear and difficulty, he discovered small ways to stay strong in his daily life and to convince the enemy.
“In the church, there was a Catholic hymn,” he said, “Catholic and French, always!”
He said, “We instigated it with all our strength, hopefully they (Nazi soldiers) will listen.”
When the forces of friendly countries come out Normandi Beach On June 6, 1944, Parier said that he did not have much access to the news and could not believe it.
Later that year, he saw the soldiers of the second French division of General Lakeler who were equipped with American tanks, coming to his village. He said, “He freed us and there was a tank that almost stopped at our door. So I went to see the tank, of course and then, he did not keep a ball away,” he said.
At the end of the war, the French people brought a German soldier, accusing him of killing a child in the village cemetery. “They dug up their grave. They put him in it … they killed him,” he said.

Esther Senote:

Esther Cenot, 97, Holocaust was one of the remaining. Born in Poland in a Jewish family, who came to France in the late 1930s, Cenot was 15 years old when she was arrested by the French police in Paris. He was sent to the Aushwitz-Birkenau camp by Cattle Train in September 1943. On the ramp, the Nazis selected the people they could use as forced laborers.
“A German with his loudspeaker said: Elderly, women, children, who are tired, can meet on trucks,” he said. “Of the 1,000 people we were, 650 met on trucks …. and 106 of us were selected to return to work in the camp.” Others were killed soon after his arrival.
Cenote survived by 17 months in Aushwitz-Berkenau and other camps and made it back to France at the age of 17.
In spring 1945, the Lutia Hotel in Paris became a gathering place for those returning from concentration camps. Cenote described a crowd of people in search of the missing family members, some bring pictures of their loved ones, while the walls were covered with posters lingering the names of the remaining people.
“It was bureaucracy,” Saynot said. “At the first counter, he gave us a temporary identity card. Then he gave us a quite basic medical examination … and those who were lucky to find their family went to an office where they were given some money and said: ‘Now you have completed the formalities … You go home.”
Seventeen members of the Cenot’s family were killed by the Nazis during the WWII, including his mother, his father and six brother -in -law.
At a recent memorial event held in front of the hotel, Cenote said that he hoped that his existence would “witness the complete crime in which we were caught.” But when she returned to France, the most difficult part was seeing how many people did not care about what happened to those who were deported.
“France was free for a year and people did not expect us that we would return to our shoulders with all the sorrows of the world,” he said.
In the neighborhood of his former Paris, a small crowd saw him. “When I came back, I weighed 32 kg (70 pounds), my hair went shaved. After a year of liberation, people did not meet any woman.”
Cenote said that when he started explaining what happened to him, he did not believe him. They got angry and said: “But you are mad, you are talking nonsense, it could not have happened.” She still remembers the man’s face who saw her and said, “You came back to such a small number, what did you do to come back and not others?”

Ginette kolinka:

The 100 -year -old Ginet Kolinka was another Holocaust Survivor. She was 19 when she was deported in April 1944 at Aushwitz-Birkenau. He is a known name in France to share his burning memories of concentration camps with the younger generation in the last two decades.
In June 1945, when she returned to Paris, her weight was only 26 kg (57 pounds) and she was very weak. Compared to others, she felt “lucky” to find her mother and four sisters in France when she came back home. Her father, and two brothers and sisters died in the camps.
She did not speak about war for more than half a century. “Those who tell their story, it is true that it seemed incredible (at that time),” he said.
Six million European Jews and other minorities were killed by the Nazis and their colleagues during the Holocost.
In the 2000s, Kolinka joined a union of survival and began speaking out.
“We have to take care that whatever happened is that a man (Adolf Hitler)) He used to hate the Jews, “he said.
“Hate, for me, is dangerous,” he said. “As soon as we say: this is such that there is one, it already proves that we really make a difference, whether we are Jews, Muslims, Christians, Blacks, we are humans.”