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Christine Forestier
I wanted my freedom
video length:
01:22
interviewer:
Ruth Deutschmann
photography:
Benjamin Epp
copyright location:
Innsbruck
English translation by:
Sylvia Manning - Baumgartner
Italian translation by:
Nicole D ´Incecco
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1940
transcription:
We knew we'd be sent to Innsbruck. My father tried to set up my job at the Sparkasse. A distant relative worked at the Sparkasse. He promised to arrange a job for me. So that was in order. I didn't have a place to live yet. My relatives here didn't want to see me because I was a "Nazi". But I wasn't. I wasn't interested in politics. I just wanted my freedom, wanted to live and speak German. I lived in the parish square. I had a very modest room. I liked it there. Until I was bombed out. A bomb hit the church tower and ruined my room too. Then some relatives took me in. They gave me a room in Saggen. That was also very nice. I lived there until I married. No, I moved back to the parish square into a different room before that.