On Saturday, August 5, 1944 around 4:30 pm, 4 Resistance fighters and a Quimper family
☨ Jean-Louis LE JEUNE, 67 years old.
☨ Anne-Marie LE JEUNE née CUZON, 64 years old.
☨ Marie-Renée LE JEUNE née LE QUILLEC, 33 years old
☨ Marie-Anne LE JEUNE épouse TOULLEC, 32 years old.
Testimony of Monsieur René Toullec son of Marie-Anne LE JEUNE:
I was born in Gourvily in December 1940. I lived there with my sister, born in 1936, my parents and my maternal grandparents until August 5, 1944. The house was located on the road to Brest, about 4 km from Quimper. Like many country businesses, it housed a refreshment bar, grocery store, public telephone and even a gas station. The business was run by my grandmother, assisted by my mother. My grandfather had been a farmhand for many years. He had served throughout the 1914-1918 war. My father was drafted in September 1939 and taken prisoner in June 1940. He was discharged from captivity in November 1942. He was always required to carry an "ausweis" written on one side in German and on the other in French, and to report to the kommandantur in Quimper once a month. The ausweis specified that he could be sent back to Germany at any time, and that any act hostile to the occupying forces would be punishable by death. He was supposed to go to work at the Saupiquet factory, but when he turned up he was told he wasn't needed. So he went back to work on his parents' farm (Beg-ar-Menez Traoñ), as he had done before the war. He went there every morning and came back in the evening. The farm was off the Brest road, about 2 km from Gourvily. It was located between Penhoat and le Stangala
On the morning of August 5, 1944, my mother cycled to Quimper to do some shopping.
Here's an excerpt from my sister's speech on August 6, 1994, at the commemoration of the tragedy:
"Certainly, living near a major thoroughfare, we had felt the tension building among the occupiers.
The day before, the Germans were already setting up a barbed-wire roadblock at the bottom of the Kerfuntun road.
That same morning, on returning from her Saturday shopping in Quimper, Maman told us about the fire at the prefecture, while congratulating herself on having made it home safely.
After lunch, at our mother's request, worried about the latent danger but restrained by the presence of a few customers, we left the house for our paternal grandparents' farm.
Our cousins accompanied us and were to bring back flour for the crêpes. She even offered to join us in the evening.
We didn't say "goodbye", we never saw each other again..."
Testimony of Monsieur René Toullec
Contribution and photo credit Crêperie Le Rayon Vert
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