{"id":23201,"date":"2024-03-07T01:38:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T06:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/josette-mollands-testimony-scenes-of-life-in-nazi-camps\/07\/03\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T01:38:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T06:38:08","slug":"josette-mollands-testimony-scenes-of-life-in-nazi-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/josette-mollands-testimony-scenes-of-life-in-nazi-camps\/07\/03\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Josette Molland\u2019s Testimony: Scenes of Life in Nazi Camps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Josette Molland, who <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/06\/world\/europe\/josette-molland-dead.html\" title=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">died<\/a> at 100 in France on Feb. 17, was a young member of the French Resistance during World War II when she was captured by the Gestapo and imprisoned in Nazi forced-labor camps for women. She survived, after witnessing and enduring repeated episodes of brutality. Later, after her return to France, she spoke to students about her experiences for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the 1980s, however, worrying that her story wasn\u2019t getting through to them, she concluded that telling the young of her camp life was not enough. She would have to show them. So she set about painting, from painful memory, scenes of the harsh incarceration that she and many other female inmates had suffered. She produced 15 paintings in all, in folk-art style. Here are five of them, with the text she wrote to accompany them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u2018The Washroom\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPlace where one washed. No soap, toothbrush, or towel. Cold water flowing into a sort of narrow, awkward trough.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u201850 Blows of the \u201cGummi\u201d\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNearly always fatal if the woman was thin. Here the blows are administered by our block captain, a German common-law prisoner (Green Triangle).\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u2018At the Dentist&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cNaked, so nothing could be hidden in clothing. He\u2019s looking for gold (used during that period). He pulls out the crowns, with the tooth. Here the bucket is full of gold.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u2018She Had Just Cut Down a Tree\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cShe collapsed with fatigue. The \u201causeherin\u201d (guard) finished her off with a bullet to the back of the head.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><strong class=\"css-8qgvsz ebyp5n10\">\u2018Liberation of the Camp by Polish Partisans on Horseback\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey had surprised the SS, ready to flee, and having mined the camp.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/06\/world\/europe\/josette-mollands-paintings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josette Molland, who died at 100 in France on Feb. 17, was a young member of the French Resistance during World War<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/world\/josette-mollands-testimony-scenes-of-life-in-nazi-camps\/07\/03\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23203,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}