Dana Roqueplo

"So I was taken in by the prison director who wouldn't let me see my dad. I told him that I had to go back to France at the end of the week, so I wanted to say goodbye to him, and he said it was impossible until he got tried. I thought that was strange... So I said, 'I'll tell you a story.' And I told him what happened to my mother when the Gestapo came for her. I said that they allowed her to take a bag with whatever she needed to live a normal life, and they even told us where they would drag her and where she would go. And I said to him, 'Don't you see any difference? Dad... you came to arrest him in his gym shorts in December, didn't you have the guts to tell the family? But the Gestapo did? They told us they were locking Mom up... She could have taken her things with her, but Dad had no right to anything, not even slippers, pajamas, nothing, not even a warm scarf, in December... He jumps up from his chair and says, 'Out!' He kicked me out of the study. I was lucky he didn't lock me up..."

"There were elections in 1948, and the resistance fighters printed ballots. Everyone got two ballots, one YES and one NO, and they went to vote whether to vote for the government or communism. So there was an awful lot of NO's printed, and you went to the ballot box, and what you didn't vote for was thrown in the other box. So whoever was standing there could see what you were throwing, whether you were throwing YES or NO. So you had to throw out the NO, one NO I put in the ballot box, the other NO I threw out, so whoever was standing there thought I put the YES in the ballot box. But I put the NO in. So that's how I voted against communism in 1948..."