The confined: A story of hidden children
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In 1942 in Nazi occupied France Jews were hunted and those helping them could be sent to concentration camps. Despite the dangers a Catholic nun took a stand that saved the lives of 82 Jewish children. Led by Sister Denise Bergon they hid the children for two years in the convent boarding school of Notre Dame de Massip. Out of around 15 nuns, only four knew the identities of the children taking shelter. Three survivors talk of their unique bond with Sister Denise and how they escaped the clutches of French collaborators and an SS Division which would become notorious for its massacres in the area.
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| 0:00.0 | The last time impressive |
| 0:09.0 | the last time the last time the last time the last time time in the years that In my country's darkest hours, a small group of women and children defied the tyranny of |
| 0:29.8 | Nazi fascism and its French collaborators. |
| 0:34.0 | In the night I said, I am going out, I cannot stay here. |
| 0:39.0 | The others began to think the same. |
| 0:42.0 | We could have died in there and died awfully. |
| 0:49.0 | The women were Catholic nuns. The children were Jews. In a country where Jews were hunted and those helping |
| 0:56.5 | them could be sent to the concentration camps, separated only by a wall from notorious excess troops. |
| 1:05.0 | Confine, in a time of fear. |
| 1:08.0 | Thus is the story of extraordinary courage. |
| 1:21.0 | My name is Alice Dwyer on BBC World Service, you're listening to The Confined. A Story of hidden children. |
| 1:24.0 | Summer 1940 |
| 1:29.0 | Summer 1940, |
| 1:31.0 | and France has fallen to the Germans. |
| 1:35.2 | The country is divided into zones controlled by the invaders and the collaborator regime of |
| 1:41.1 | Marichel Petin. From the |
| 1:43.0 | from the president of the Republic, |
| 1:47.0 | I'm a part of the party of the jubly, |
| 1:50.0 | the direction of government of the France the from exile in London, the free French led by General |
| 1:57.4 | Dugul were trying to rally the spirits of a defeated nation. |
| 2:01.8 | Part of my country is under the Nasir Hill, |
| 2:05.0 | while the other part is under the domination of the men who betrayed her. |
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