As for you, my two brothers, the struggles you are waging, at your age, to raise the consciousness of all those who need it, compel respect and contribute to hope. I returned disabled. This is to tell you that we shared with our Jewish comrades all the ordeals of the camps. Let them know, too, that in France, there were about 250,000 deportees, of which about 25,000 were French Jews. Between 80,000 and 100,000 returned, of which about 15,000 were Jews.
Nobody speaks about the non-Jewish deportees.
There is a lot of talk about Shoah, but nothing about the underground factories of V1 and V2 in Dora, where thousands of French deportees died of exhaustion and bad treatment. Dora, too, was a camp of extermination, by work and by hunger. There is no talk about this, either. They, too, have the right to memory. In the camps, there was no monopoly by any category.