Thousands of people in
Switzerland who were forced into child labour are demanding compensation
for their stolen childhoods. Since the 1850s hundreds of thousands of
Swiss children were taken from their parents and sent to farms to work -
a practice that continued well into the 20th Century.
David Gogniat heard a loud knock on the door. There were two policemen."I heard them shouting and realised something was wrong. I looked out and saw that my mother had pushed the policemen down the stairs," he says.
"She then came back in and slammed the door. The next day three policemen came. One held my mother and the other took me with them."
At the age of eight, he was in effect kidnapped and taken away to a farm. To this day he has no idea why.For the first years of his life, he and his older brother and sisters lived alone with their mother. They were poor, but his childhood was happy until one day in 1946, when he came home from school to find his siblings had disappeared.
A year later it was his turn.
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