Published on 25/11/2024 23:10
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“I saw people who weighed 28 kilos”: Henri Mosson, the last survivor of the only concentration camp located in France, recounts his detention
“I saw people who weighed 28 kilos”: Henri Mosson, the last survivor of the only concentration camp located in France, recounts his detention
(France 2)
Henri Mosson is 100 years old today. The former resistance fighter is the last survivor of the Natzwiller-Struthof camp (Alsace), the only Nazi concentration camp located in France. France Télévisions met him.
In the heart of the Alsatian forest, the memory of Nazi barbarism. Watchtowers, a gallows, so many vestiges of the terrible Natzwiller-Struthof camp, the only concentration camp located in France. It was built in 1941, when Alsace was German, annexed by the Third Reich.
At Struthof and its annexed camps, 50,000 deportees experienced hell. Henri Mosson bore the number 6,290. The former resistance fighter was arrested in Dijon and tortured by the Gestapo, before being deported to the Alsatian camp. At 100 years old, he is one of the last witnesses: “It was abominable […] I saw people who weighed 28 kilos”he remembers. He shared the ordeal of resistance fighters and political prisoners from all over Europe. The camp was built for them, nicknamed the “NN” by the Nazis, for “Nacht-und-Nebel”, “Night and fog”.
Watch the full report in the video above.
