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On the morning of January 24, 1943, a cold, damp Sunday, Frenchwomen, identified as political prisoners, were transported through Ile-de-France in trucks.
They sang and called out to pedestrians, trying to draw attention: "We're Frenchwomen! Political prisoners! We're being deported to Germany!" but were largely ignored.
The trucks stopped near a railroad siding, where a long train of freight cars awaited.
The front cars were already filled with 1,200 men from Royallieu camp, who had spent the previous night in Compiègne station.
The women, totaling 230, were directed by German soldiers into the last four empty cars. The first three cars held 60 to 70 women each, while the last car, where the narrator was, held 27 women.
The previous evening, for food distribution, each woman received one loaf of bread and a 10 centimeter-long piece of sausage; the quantity provided no indication of the journey's length.
Inside the train cars, there was half a bale of scattered straw and a tar barrel in the middle. The doors were bolted shut, leaving them in darkness.
Most of the women (222) originated from the fort at Romainville, transported to Compiègne in two groups on January 22 and 23. Six came from Fresnes prison, and two from other cells.
During the journey, women wrote notes on paper, asking finders to notify their families (in Case only one note should reach its destination), stating their deportation to Germany, their