A family whose history has been a stormy one and the father shot for refusing to collect loot. The family was living in Lille when it was sacked in October 1914. The older girl on the right was arrested for giving chocolate to French prisoners and was locked up for two weeks. Finally her mother had to buy her release from the German Commandant by selling her wedding ring and all the family treasures. This money went either to the German government or to the Commandant. The case is typical of a large member of arrests made about that time. Another daughter twenty years old was taken away by the German Commandant and has never been seen since. The family was rapatrie through Evian. They were brutally treated on the way and had to sleep in the open fields for 19 days with hardly any food. They are sheltered by the A.R.C. in the comfortable home shown in the picture. They have been given furniture and the older children have secured employment through the A.R.C. Two sons are in the French Army