The Frenchman Victor L. was committed to perform forced labor in Germany in 1943 within the framework of the Service du Travail obligatoire (STO).  He worked in a foundry of the steel plant Reichswerke Hermann Göring near Amberg, in a concrete factory in Hirschau and in railroad construction in Penzberg.

Short Biography

• Born in Grau du Roi, France on July 18, 1921
• 1940: Begins studying fine arts in Montpellier
• Interrupts his studies due to his service in the organization “chantiers du jeunesse” (November 1941 to June 1942)
• March 1943: Forced labor in Amberg in a foundry of the steel plant Reichswerke Hermann Göring
• April to June 1943: Forced labor in a concrete factory in Hirschau
• July 1943 to April 1944: Forced labor in railroad construction in Penzberg
• Housing in barrack camps and for a short time with a German family
• Manages to return to France and goes into hiding in May 1944
• Works as a caricaturist and a journalist after the war and finally for the newspaper Paris Match 

Interview Information

• Interview za086 »
• Video interview in French
• Interviewed on July 10, 2006 by Anne-Marie Granet-Abisset
• Interview duration: 3 hours
• Transcript, photos
• Subset "France - AAMRDI Grenoble"

A biographical short film (duration 25 minutes) from the interview with Helena B.-Sz. has been produced for the German-language educational material "Video Testimonies for School Education". Together with a biographical map, a glossary and additional documents, it is available in the learning software.