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[Thread] "We will have to rebuild everything and we, the young people, will have to try to do everything so that such atrocities never happen again." I'm honored to share with you excerpts from the memoirs of my dear, late grandmother, Jacqueline. (1/41)

As promised to some here, I'm reposting one of my Twitter threads I posted to celebrate Victory Day, to which I'm adding another thread I made for the 80th anniversary of D Day (Normandy landings). (2/41)

(apart the one of my young grandmother, all pics were taken on Google) In fact, this is not very far from my usual subject, sci-fi, which is sometimes (partly) inspired by WW2 and the fight against fascism. Star Wars is a good example. (3/41)

Here are five extracts from the life of my beloved grandmother, Jacqueline, in France during WW2. In 1944, she was 12 years old. I'll skip the many pages about bombings, hunger, collaborators, children manipulated by propaganda, and other horrible situations. To arrive in June 1944. (5/41)

Jacqueline was 13 for #DDay. "June 1944: Bombing raids get closer and closer, especially on the Atlantic side. The weather is fine in Paris, and the air is fragrant because there is no pollution. There's a palpable sense of agitation and excitement, even for a little girl like me. Everyone is (6/41)

waiting. Nobody knows, or rather dares to hope." On June 6, airborne operations were flying over the English Channel, ahead of an invasion fleet of some 7,000 (real) ships. These people saved my family. 10,000 died. I don't forget.❤️ Pictures by Robert Capa: (7/41)