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Sep 20, 2026
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I don't remember.
Elyse RivinGUEST
She was taken to the prison of Fresnes, which is still a prison in France, but which at the time was a kind of halfway house for those people who were being arrested and eventually being sent off to camps in Germany.
Elyse RivinGUEST
And she was there that she learned that her mother had also been arrested, and the two of them were then sent to the camp of Ravensbrück, of Ravensbrück.
Elyse RivinGUEST
She was sent with a group of 24 other people, but she was considered to be so dangerous that she was part of this group that was called Nacht und Nebel, which means night and fog, and they were considered to be the most dangerous of the resistance.
James O'ConnorNARRATOR
Next day we had reached a line along the Shell Canal to the Faubourg de Paris.
James O'ConnorNARRATOR
thence along the canal to Fresnes, thence to Audam, fronting on the Scheldt opposite Condi.
James O'ConnorNARRATOR
The advance was continued with the 4th Canadian Division on the right and the 3rd Canadian Division on the left, the 10th Brigade being on our extreme right along the left bank of the Scheldt, south of which was the area of the 22nd Corps.
James O'ConnorNARRATOR
On the left of the 10th was the 11th Brigade, working on a line drawn from just north of Dinan through Anzim, the northwestern suburb of Valenciennes.
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James O'ConnorNARRATOR
On the front of the 3rd Canadian Division the advance was particularly difficult, the country being under water except where railway embankments, slag heaps, and houses stood up out of the flood, and afforded excellent cover for enemy machine-gunners and riflemen, Some stiff fighting took place when the advance was continued on November 3, but in spite of this, good progress was made, especially on the right, on the front of the 11th Canadian Infantry Brigade, Brigadier General V.W. Odlem, where the line was advanced 3,000 yards and the village of Estreau captured.
James O'ConnorNARRATOR
Progress on the left was necessarily slower, owing to the flooded nature of the ground.
James O'ConnorNARRATOR
The front of the 3rd Canadian Division had now become very extended, and on the night of November 3-4, a portion of it from Audemars de Fresnes, about a mile in extent, was handed over to the 52nd Division of the 8th Corps.
James O'ConnorNARRATOR
On November 4, the line was carried forward about two miles on the front of the 4th Canadian Division.
David LawHOST
All right, Hassan.
Matthew RobertsHOST
Who is from Fresnes in France.
Catherine WhitakerHOST
Ooh.
Matthew RobertsHOST
And Hassan says, "No Tennis Hassan, but lately I discovered that I share my birth date, not birthday, birth date, as in born the same day of the same year, with a very TTP-coded player, and it's like the universe, after creating me, saw my pathological need to please and say sorry to everyone, and so it said, 'Well, let's bring balance to that on this very same day,' and therefore the universe created Laura Siegemund." [laughs]
Jane Gulliford-LowesHOST
So Stanley's aircraft was shot down just before D-Day, but for him, that was really only the, the beginning of i- of his ordeal.
Jane Gulliford-LowesHOST
Can you talk us through the circumstances of his loss, his, his attempts to evade capture, his betrayal to the Gestapo, and the brutal treatment he received during interrogation at- I can't even say that, it's Pr- is it Fresnes? Fresnes
Sean FeastGUEST
Fresnes.
Sean FeastGUEST
I think it's Fresnes.
Jane Gulliford-LowesHOST
Fresnes.
Sean FeastGUEST
Yeah.
Jane Gulliford-LowesHOST
Fresnes.
Jane Gulliford-LowesHOST
Yeah.