[Nummern-Namen-Kartei Männer Buchenwald - Part 8] 9668099

Document from the Arolsen Archives with the ID: 9668099

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René PERNOT

http://www.bddm.org/liv/details.php?id=I.172.#PERNOT

https://www.fondationresistance.org/pages/actualites/disparition-rene-pernot-1928-2022_actu851.htm

Testimony (video):

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René Pernot, born on January 22, 1928 in Cormatin, France, describes his family and early life; his father, who was a mechanic; his early childhood through primary school; first noticing that his father was organizing the beginnings of a Resistance group, with meetings at their house along with three to four men, including Monsieur Pagnelle [PH] and Monsieur Delorieux [PH] (the butcher); the villagers knowing who supported the Germans and who did not; the first parachute drops from England in the outskirts of Cormatin in September 1943; his father taking him to the landing site, where two Frenchmen in training in England arrived; other drops, and accompanying his father to collect flyers, information, and other documents; the important Resistance role of the curé Duvernois [PH] of La Chapelle-sous-Brancion; Mlle. Vincent, a teacher in La Chapelle-sous-Brancion; his father going into hiding when the Germans began closing in on his Resistance activities; his father’s return to their home in the evenings; the day he was arrested in his father’s house in November 1943 at the age of 15 when the Mayor and a German soldier arrived; being sent to Montluc for three months; being sent to Compiègne, a transit camp; being sent to Buchenwald, where he stayed until April 1945; the deportation to Buchenwald by cattle car; arriving at the camp at night and getting tattooed; his work at an arms factory in Weimar; corresponding via censored letters with his mother and learning that his father was okay, along with his friend Jean Blavier [PH], and Roger [surname unclear]; the SS transferring the political prisoners to Dachau when the Soviets entered Poland; being too weak to return to Paris when in April 1945 the Americans liberated Dachau; being hospitalized in Switzerland to regain his strength; attributing his survival to his Boy Scout training and laments the lack of interest in scouting in 2018; and his belief that he was arrested because the Germans thought his father would then come forward and declare himself a Resistance leader, but he never did.