Volume: 28"
Adam, Louis [310] [memoir from June-July 1944; Avranches is his memoir on the D-
Day invasion and the attack on schools by the Germans]
Adeline, Pierre [30] [notes taken from June 6, to Sept. 3, 1944; bombing of Caen on D-
Day; search for a safe place; school reception center for refugees; liberation of Caen by
Canadians; German will to keep fighting; reminiscences of a deaf child; diary made into a
narrative in 1986 called The Deaf School, Boys and Girls, During the Battle of Caen]
Alibert, Dr. [210] [diary of Aunt Leo re the bombing and being evacuated from
Cherbourg; exodus of the whole family]
Anonymous (1)-(8) [209, 309, 175, 189, 271, 65, 212, 143] [description of military
actions; in wait of liberation; bombing on Cherbourg area; contradictory information;
vanguard arrives June 21; German artillery; Cherbourg liberated June 26; letter found in
the ruins, a mother writes to her son and tells him his brother has just died from the
bombings, in Vire; notes taken from May to July 1944, re the living conditions of the
population; acts of sabotage on the railroad; Battle of Caen, Anglo-American and German
assaults, D-Day and bombings, organization of the population for the children; the Allies
liberate Caen, July 6, 1944; German artillery shellings go on until August 15, 1944; diary
from June and July, the daily life of the community from D-Day to liberation; letter from
Alice Dagobert, exodus of the community, evacuation of the sick, the elderly and the
young girls, including Alice; list of emergency team members; interventions; names and
events day after day; D-Day and bombings; diary with drawings; diary of D-Day
bombings of Lion-Sur Mer,Caen, and Hermanville and the wait for liberation]
Avenel, Genevieve [317] [description of the many bombings of the town and the effects
on the population]
Baduel, Mme. [224] [diary; before the landing; resistance; German requisitions and
preparations for the landing; D-Day; liberation of the village begins; occupation ends July
7, 1944; resume day to day life]
Baille, Mme. [82] [description of hard living conditions and the organization of people;
placed at the head of the nursery; took care of the injured and dead; Canadians finally
liberate them]
Beauchemin, Drougard, Lagnel (1)-(3) [4] [four people describe the same events, living
conditions, and military operations]
Beaulieu, Mme. [90] [a report written for school about the tragic events of 1944;
description of D-Day in vicinity of Mondeville, Demouville, and Mard-De-Reno; exodus,
separation from parents; father died of gangrene from a war wound; reunion with her
mother]