The martyrdom of a whole district
| Sunday January 24, 1943, at 6 o'clock in the morning, the district Northern of the Old man-Port, known as " the old workings ", is encircled by the font and the German army. 25 000 people, men, women, children, old men, are thus evacuated by trams and truck to the station of Arenc, 1 642 of them delivered to Gestapo. |
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Badauds at the border of the closed area.
All poor goods pile up
It is necessary to have a stony heart to tear off
all these people with their hearth.
Will it need its bicycle where one sends it?
Marseilles companies lent their voluntary contests
with devotion. This epic of the Marseilles companies testifies
solidarity which règné in our city
Arrival in station of Arenc
What does one carry when one goes in a camp?
Coaches of disaster memory!
Of the Marseillais of origin or adventure paid of their life the demolition of the " old workings ".
