10 June 1944
Roger Godrin was an 8-year old schoolboy the day the soldiers came to Oradour-sur-Glane.
His family, refugees from the annexed Moselle region, had settled at Oradour.
Roger's father had always told him to run if he saw German soldiers.
He did, but his family didn't.
Roger would face the rest of his life living with the nightmare that unfolded that day.
His father, Arthur was shot in one of the barns. His mother, Georgette, perished in the flames of the church along with his sisters Marie-Jeanne 12, Pierrette 11, Josette 3, and brother Claude 4.