His translucent gaze and his strong voice pierce the silence. At the age of 92, François Duville recounts in one go the memories of his internment, when he was just a child. “We had horse trailers and the gendarmes stopped us,” he begins. The family was first placed in a camp in Poitiers, from where his father was transferred to a concentration camp in Germany, from which he never returned. The mother and children were transported to the Montreuil-Bellay camp, which interned up to 2,000 gypsies between 1941 and 1945, in particularly trying conditions.
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