Letter: The crimes of Vichy

Sir: My husband and I have read Julian Nundy's articles on the assassination of the Frenchman Rene Bousquet with great interest ('Assassin reopens French war scars'; ' 'Precious collaborator' sent children to Nazi death camps', 9 June). My husband Albert's parents and young sister were sent to their death in 1942 in Vichy France. They had come from Austria as refugees to France in 1939. My husband had come to England on the Kindertransporte on his own, aged 14, in December 1938.

We feel strongly that the trial for crimes against humanity against Paul Touvier and Maurice Papon mentioned in your article should go ahead. The last letter my husband received from his family was in July 1942 and then silence. He never saw his parents and sister alive again.

Yours truly,

JOSIE DUTCH

London, NW2