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D-Day is celebrated as a day of liberation. For one French family, there was a price

French families recall rapes committed by a handful of GIs after D-Day. A note to listeners that this piece mentions sexual assault.

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Eleanor Beardsley began reporting from France for NPR in 2004 as a freelance journalist, following all aspects of French society, politics, economics, culture and gastronomy. Since then, she has steadily worked her way to becoming an integral part of the NPR Europe reporting team.