Post by Administrator on May 9, 2022 21:22:48 GMT
VIA: Caroline Clopet
In memory of my very courageous Great Grandmother, Charlotte Clopet. In 1943, in La Garenne Colombes, a suburb of Paris, she was hiding a French Resistance Radio in her flat, while my Great Grandfather Aristide had been arrested by the Gestapo, and thrown into the notorious Fresnes prison. She was sadly killed in an American Air raid, as they were aiming for the infamous Da Souza factory where German tanks were being made. Without knowing his wife had been killed, Aristide managed to escape from Fresnes prison with the help of the Resistance, and made his way down to the Pyrenees and out of France. He only found out that Charlotte had been killed at the end of the war. Charlotte was British/Scottish, born in Berwick upon Tweed, and together with my Grt Grandfather, had been Heros in World War 1. The Germans had ignored Charlotte despite her being British, as they thought she was over 60, and therefore not a threat. They never dreamt my Grt Grandparents had a Resistance Radio in their flat. The Gestapo had arrested my Grt Grandfather for what he had done during WW1 - made a fool out of the Germans by escaping from the SS Geier in his ship by using Coconuts for Stoke the boiler, in the Caroline Islands.
In memory of my very courageous Great Grandmother, Charlotte Clopet. In 1943, in La Garenne Colombes, a suburb of Paris, she was hiding a French Resistance Radio in her flat, while my Great Grandfather Aristide had been arrested by the Gestapo, and thrown into the notorious Fresnes prison. She was sadly killed in an American Air raid, as they were aiming for the infamous Da Souza factory where German tanks were being made. Without knowing his wife had been killed, Aristide managed to escape from Fresnes prison with the help of the Resistance, and made his way down to the Pyrenees and out of France. He only found out that Charlotte had been killed at the end of the war. Charlotte was British/Scottish, born in Berwick upon Tweed, and together with my Grt Grandfather, had been Heros in World War 1. The Germans had ignored Charlotte despite her being British, as they thought she was over 60, and therefore not a threat. They never dreamt my Grt Grandparents had a Resistance Radio in their flat. The Gestapo had arrested my Grt Grandfather for what he had done during WW1 - made a fool out of the Germans by escaping from the SS Geier in his ship by using Coconuts for Stoke the boiler, in the Caroline Islands.