Témoignages pour Mémoire

Henri Borlant: The people who touch you and who are touched by this problem, they can't handle it, at least that's been my experience. And the others, those who can hear it, maybe they are indifferent, or less concerned? Maybe it simply bores them, because they are not happy stories. So when I give testimony, I finally sort through things and only tell those things which are interesting, exciting. For example, I have always begun by describing my escape, because it's action, it's like a novel, it's an adventure film, heroic... But to talk about the misery, tell of the martyrdom, you can only tell this to people who are concerned, and who have suffered in their flesh and in their families. And those people have difficulty listening to you. And when I see you Claudine, I see that sometimes you are suffering. I see your face and your expression changing. So, somehow, I know that what I'm saying is true. NOTE: Translated from the original French into English by Ruth Rachel Anderson-Avraham, née Yvonne Michele Anderson, Bold World.