It’s a family secret like so many. Especially when it comes to World War II. But Florence Ouillié prefers to talk about “family mystery. Because we are not sure that people deliberately wanted to hide that he was not dead. » Like an investigator working on a cold case, these unresolved legal cases, this 64-year-old Toulouse woman has been going through dozens of documents, and doing multiple searches on the internet, for more than ten years. “I continue to look for traces of my great-uncle, Gaston. He was believed to have died during deportation. While he had taken refuge in Orne! “, she summarizes, with the same emotion that gripped her during this discovery.
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