No More Bullets
by Elsa Vogel
When Elsa and I were in London one day, meeting up with young people keen to hear about our lives, I noted how gripped they were with her story. I resolved to ask her to write it down, even though she was French, and 88 – it was not easy for her. But it inspired me to carry on asking other ‘veterans’ of the work of MRA to do likewise – for the benefit of future generations. Otherwise these stories will be lost forever.
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‘It is August 1944. The occupation of France by the Germans has gone on for four years, but now there is a great excitement that the Allies have landed in Normandy and are approaching Paris. I was born and bred in Paris and, having lived through all of the occupation, am now nearly 19 years old, studying at the University of Medicine. Like everyone else, I am waiting for the moment when we shall be liberated…’
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