Thursday, October 15th, the terminal STD2A students attended a staged reading of «café résistance,» a book by Eckhardt Momber, born in Berlin in 1941, «at the center of German madness.»
A book that stages in a café figures of the Resistance, all women, 17 of them, some well-known like Lucie Aubrac and Germaine Tillon, others less so, who remember and recount their commitment to the Resistance against the German occupation and the Nazi regime.
In this performance, lasting just under an hour, five portraits of women from the Resistance are highlighted: Suzanne Raparie, a postal worker in Saint-Flour; Bertie Albrecht, a feminist, partner of Henry Frenay, and co-founder of «Combat»; Claire Chevrion, who, while on vacation in the Free Zone, dabbled in underground activities for amusement; and Germaine Tillion, deported to Ravensbrück, who wrote a dark humor operetta and had it performed by her fellow inmates in the camp. Available in hell and Madeleine Riffaud, the warrior who refused to shoot the surrendering German soldiers.
