It's a sound she knows by heart, having heard it dozens of times.
"
She's a mermaid unlike any other,
" recalls Josette, 88.
It's a siren that screams very loudly, that wakes you up at night
.
This siren of which the almost nonagenarian speaks is an anti-bombing alert, which she did not think she would hear again in her life.
However, since February 24 and the start of the Russian offensives in Ukraine, this trident sound has become familiar to him again: “
Even if it is through TV, it reminds me of when it was us, under the bombs
”.
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In May 1940, Josette was 6 years old.
She lived in Melun (Seine-et-Marne), with her big sister Janine, her brother Jean and her two parents.
“
I remember it very well.
We were in a small house and they started talking about the war.
We didn't really know what it was at the time, we were still innocent.
If the general mobilization had been dictated since September 1939, the "phoney war" had left a few months...
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