Aimee Dupre had always kept silent about the rape of her mother by two American soldiers after the Normandy landings in June 1944.
But 80 years after the brutal assault, she finally felt it was time to speak out.
Another French woman, Jeannine Plassard, also remembers her mother's rape by an American soldier and is telling her story.
Nearly a million US, British, Canadian and French soldiers landed on the Normandy coast in the weeks after D-Day in an operation that was to herald the end of Nazi Germany's grip on Europe.