Signé ; Simonne Rohner - Rare Tapuscrit : En Enfer...9 février 1944/mai 1945. Nice novembre 1988 - 1988

Simonne Rohner: In Hell... February 9, 1944 / May 1945. Nice, November 1988. Written testimony (typed manuscript) by Simonne Rohner, a French resistance fighter, recounting her arrest and deportation during the Second World War.
This date corresponds to the publication or final typed-manuscript edition of her testimony in Nice. It was produced as part of the collection of Michel El Baze, then president of the Nice section of the Croix de guerre et de la Valeur militaire association, which published accounts to preserve the living memory of deportees and resistance fighters.

Very good overall condition, inside and out. 159 pages, + Index and Tables (unnumbered). 30 x 22 cm, 2 kg (including packaging). Free Mondial Relay shipping; for other shipping methods, see the listed costs.

“En enfer… 9 février 1944 / 8 mai 1945” (“In Hell... February 9, 1944 / May 8, 1945”) is the title of her account of the concentration camps. February 9, 1944 marks the time of her arrest in Dijon (following a missed appointment at the Café de la Reconnaissance), followed by her internment in Dijon prison and then in Romainville. She was subsequently deported to the camps at Ravensbrück and Hanover in Germany, where she remained until the Nazi capitulation on May 8, 1945. She wrote this text shortly afterward, just a few weeks after returning from deportation in 1945, so that her memories would remain perfectly intact and authentic.
This is not a mass-market book printed in thousands of copies by a major publisher, but a very limited-edition typed manuscript, produced as a hand-bound, heat-glued volume (cloth spine, covers protected with clear plastic) as part of Michel El Baze’s commemorative collection in Nice.
Firsthand, early accounts (this one was written as early as 1945) of the Ravensbrück and Hanover camps are highly sought after by collectors of postal history, war documents, and deportation-related material.
Simonne Rohner’s signature and handwritten dedication, “To Raymond Baudouin, deported resistance fighter, from his friend Simonne,” add value to the work as well as undeniable historical significance.
Raymond Baudouin was a figure in the Resistance, particularly active within the regional resistance network or the veterans’ and deportees’ commemorative associations. His name is often found in connection with deportee associations (ADIR or FNDIRP) or sections of Resistance and Croix de Guerre medal recipients (directly connected with the typist’s publisher, Michel El Baze).