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Description
Mr. Robertson shares a story of a family’s willingness to accept him in their home while “on the run”.
Transcription
We each had carried with us a photograph that we had done in England but as they had told us there that so many of the photographs had the same shirt, the same tie, that the enemy recognized right away, this one is from England. So we, by the way, yah, we carried it always with us, see. So they threw that one away and they got a new photograph. Then we were taken and told to follow this woman, we followed her to a house. She stopped at the door, we went in and she went on her way. We went up a flight of stairs or so and in this apartment, there was now twenty two allied airmen. I was the only Canadian, there might have been three Brits and the rest were Americans. All it was, was really like a storage room, we were parcels to them and we were shipped out, you know, and a phone would ring and they would go off. We would go to the, follow whoever we were supposed to be. The woman in the house came to me and said, “Bill, I’m very sorry, Dr. Belanger, not a nice man but he’s going to take you to a nice home.” I said, “That’s alright to me.” I mean if he’s brave enough to take me being at a risk of being shot, eh? So Dr. Belanger came to me and I followed him all the way and he took me up to a home and it turned out to be a chap, Pierre was his name. I stayed there for almost four months off and on. And he was the chief of police of Liege and there was his wife and one daughter, his daughter I guess she would be about 11 years old then, Yvette. And they had a radio there. Now that was wonderful. I can tell you when we were there because I was only there a day or two when I turned on the radio, listened to the BBC, by the way, it was illegal to do that in occupied country, if you were caught, you could be thrown in jail for it. You were only allowed to use the radio to listen to the music coming out of Germany or any news from Germany. But if you were caught listening to the BBC, you were in trouble. So I listened and I heard they had landed on the beach so it was the 6th of June, I know that, that well.