A Train in Winter (60 page)

Oswiecim, 185
see also
Auschwitz-Birkenau

Ouzoulias, Albert, 56, 57–8, 61, 63–4, 112, 136

Pakula, Geneviève, 6, 319

Palais Berlitz, Paris: exhibition on Jews and France, 121

Palais de la Municipalité, Paris, 32

Palluy, Lucienne, 337

Pantagruel
, 24

Papon, Maurice, 145, 296

Paris

in early months of German occupation, 11–14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, 39–41

Resistance in, 24–9, 31, 34–7, 41–2, 47–53, 56–60, 63–5, 67, 77–8, 79–80, 96

intellectuals in, 32–9

Jews in, 55, 75–6, 122–3, 125

police surveillance of resisters in, 1–2, 73–4, 96–7, 128–9

culture in, 78

conditions in winter of 1941, 80, 81

passes issued by bureau in, 85

arrest of resisters in, 2–4, 95, 97–9, 100, 101, 102–3, 113, 125–8, 129–32

resisters in prison in, 89, 90, 94, 104–7, 114–15, 115–17, 119–20, 150, 151–68, 169–75

execution of resisters in, 117–19, 132, 165–6

women resisters deported from, 175

liberation committee in, 284

women survivors return to 285, 286–7, 289–91

de Gaulle assumes control in, 295

post-war, 306

brief references, 5, 6, 109, 297, 299, 304, 309, 313, 315

see also
Paris Prefecture

Paris Prefecture, 3, 17, 73, 74, 75, 98, 103, 104, 127, 129, 131

Paris Soir
, 22

Parti Communist Français
see
PCF

Parti Populaire Français, 41

Pasionaria, La (Dolores Ibárruri), 123

passes, 84–5

passeurs
, 85–6, 87, 88, 89, 90–1, 102, 176, 208

Passot, Charles, 173

Passot, Madeleine (Betty)
see
Langlois (
née
Passot), Madeleine (Betty)

Pateau, Yvonne, 337–8

Patriote de Romainsville
, 157

Pau, 101

Paulhan, Jean, 41, 119

Paxton, Marcus, 305

PCF (Parti Communist Français), 25–32, 37, 38, 41, 44, 49, 56, 64, 68, 118
see also
Bataillons de la Jeunesse; Communists; Jeunes Filles de France; Jeunesse Communiste; names of individual members

Pecheux, Lucie, 338

Pelé family, 88, 89

Pennec, Marie-Jeanne, 212, 240, 245–6, 249, 323

Pensée Libre, La
, 77

Père Lachaise cemetery, Paris, 113, 118, 125, 165

Pétain, Marshal, 14, 15, 16, 19, 28, 33, 43, 44, 47, 60, 61, 70, 92, 119, 121, 122, 137, 168, 227, 298

Petite Gironde, La
, 150

Petit Parisien, Le
, 97

Petri, Gabriel, 40, 81

Pflaum, Hans, 253, 257–8, 262, 269–70, 272, 281, 302

Piaf, Edith, 52, 306, 312

Pica, Attilio, 251

Pica, Aurore, 144, 149, 166, 177, 227, 242, 251, 338

Pica, Celeste, 251

Pica, Yolande
see
Gili (
née
Pica), Yolande

Pican, André, 1–2, 3, 65–6,
66
, 67, 97, 98, 99, 100, 105, 116, 291

Pican, Germaine

biographical details, 323

photograph of,
66

works for the Resistance, 65, 67, 71

family life, 66

arrested, 3, 98

and arrest of Claudine Guérin, 99

at Paris Prefecture, 104

moved to La Santé, 105

in La Santé, 107, 116, 117, 119

sees her husband before his death, 116

in Romainville, 154–5, 160

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 217, 220

sent to Raisko, 221

sent back to Birkenau, 241

sent to Ravensbrück, 241

in Ravensbrück, 251, 254

leaves Ravensbrück for Mauthausen, 273

rescued from Mauthausen, 275

returns to France, 291, 292

brief reference, 195

Picard, Yvonne, 338

Picasso, Pablo, 27

Pierre, Suzanne, 338

Pierrot (Resistance worker), 125

Pirou, Germaine, 323

Pithiviers internment camp, 123–4, 171

Pitiot, Renée, 323

Pizzoli, Henriette, 329

Pohl, Gruppenführer, 246, 247

Poinsot, Henri, 135

Poinsot, Jean, 135

Poinsot, Pierre Napoleon, 134–5 and n, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 205, 297

Poirier, Juliette, 338

Poland, 22, 121, 122, 123, 124, 170, 219, 226, 304–5
see also
names of camps

Poles, 169–71, 201, 202, 245

Kaninchen
, 252–3, 271–2, 281

refugees, 19

police
see
French police

Politzer, Georges

works for the Resistance, 36, 41, 50, 56, 77, 79

police enter flat of, 98

arrested, 3

in Paris Prefecture, 98, 104

badly treated, 104

moved to La Santé, 105

passes through hands of the Gestapo, 110

shot, 116

brief references, 38, 57, 65, 102, 119, 126, 260, 298

Politzer, Maï

biographical details, 338

photograph of,
36, 159

works for the Resistance, 36, 37, 42, 49, 50, 56, 63, 77, 79, 96

friendship with Danielle, 45

known to police as ‘Femme Vincennes’, 2, 3, 98

police enter flat of, 98

arrested, 3

in Paris Prefecture, 98, 104

aware of torture of husband and lover, 104

moved to La Santé, 105

in La Santé, 105, 106, 116, 117, 119

death of her husband, 116

death of her lover, 118

in Romainville, 157, 160, 162

on the train, 176

in Auschwitz-Birkenau, 197, 212, 213, 216–17

death, 217

mentioned in broadcast, 227

brief references, 38, 57, 65, 70, 102, 230, 260, 286, 296, 309

Politzer, Michel, 36, 50, 117, 118, 292

Pomies, Pauline,
159
, 338

Porcher, Line, 338

Postel-Vinay, Annette, 252, 272

POWN, 170

Presse-Gruppe
, 22

Presset, Delphine, 338

Propaganda-Abteilung, 78

Provence, 148

Prunières, Paulette, 233, 323

Pruzana, 219

Pucheu, Pierre, 60, 69, 70, 72, 104

Puyoou, Marie-Thérèse, 338

Pyrénées-Atlantiques, 42

Quatremaire, Jacqueline, 80, 128, 129, 130, 152, 163, 184, 203, 338–9

Rabeaux, Paula, 339

‘race, the’, 199–200

Radio London, 123

Radio Moscow, 76

Radio Nationale, 298

Raisko, 221–5, 229, 231, 238–9, 242, 301

Rappenau, Constance, 339

Rauch, Madeleine de, 40

Ravensbrück, 225, 240, 241, 243–57, 260, 261–72, 273, 278–81, 282–5, 286, 293, 299, 301, 302, 316

Red Army, 270, 283

Red Cross, 226, 227, 228, 275, 276, 277, 279, 281, 282, 285, 289

American, 15

Canadian, 279

Swedish, 279

refugees, 19–20

Reichsbank, 188

Reige, Georges, 133

Reimers, Hans Gottfried, 69, 134, 135

Rémy (Resistance leader), 85, 86

Renaud, Germaine, 116, 339

Renaudin, Daniel, 310

Renaudin, Germaine, 6,
142
, 142–3, 146, 241, 275, 291, 292, 308, 310, 314, 323

Renaudin, Tony, 6, 143, 146, 291

Rennes, 6, 92, 93, 94, 309

Renseignements Généraux, 72, 111, 297

Resistance

early stages, 23–42, 46–56

publications, 24, 36–7, 41, 77–8, 83, 119, 126, 128

the move to armed attacks, 56–61

German reprisals after attack at Barbés metro station, 60–1, 62–3

decision to continue armed attacks, 63–4

formation of Francs-Tireurs et Partisans, 64

manufacture of explosives, 64, 65

decision to make armed attacks outside Paris, 65

in Rouen, 65–8

assassination of German officers in Nantes and Bordeaux, 68–9

German reprisals for the attacks at Nantes and Bordeaux, 69–70, 81–2

further attacks by, 71

French police become involved in tracking down resisters, 72–4

resisters under police surveillance, 1–2, 73–4, 96–7, 128–9

formation of National Committee of Writers, 77

printing and distribution work, 79–80, 96

growing support for, 82–3

helps people to cross demarcation line, 85–91

gathering of information for Allies, 91, 92, 93

resisters arrested, 2–4, 91, 94–5, 97–101, 102–3, 111–12, 114, 125–8, 129–32

resisters in prison, 104–7, 114–15, 115–16, 119–20

changed nature of, 107–8

German strategy for repression of, 108–11

trials of resisters, 112

execution of resisters, 112, 115, 116–19, 132, 164–6

in Bordeaux and its surroundings, 133, 136–45

repressed in Bordeaux and its surroundings, 134, 135–6, 145–50

women resisters held in Romainville, 151–68, 169–75

response to prospect of compulsory labour, 168–9

includes all factions, 169

deportation of resisters, 172–3, 175–9

treatment of resisters in post-war France, 303–4

see also
names of resisters

Résistance
(paper), 41

résistants de la dernière heure
, 295, 308

Reuilly metro station, 100
Reviers
/infirmaries

Birkenau, 209, 212, 215, 216, 216, 217, 221, 222, 225, 228, 229, 232, 242