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The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (English: Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation) [2] is a memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It is located in Paris, France, on the site of a former morgue, underground behind Notre Dame on Île de la Cité.
Mémorial de la Shoah is the Holocaust museum in Paris, France. [1] The memorial is in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the Marais district, which had a large Jewish population at the beginning of World War II. [2] The memorial was opened, by President Jacques Chirac, on 27 January 2005.
French Resistance museums and memorials commemorate people and events associated with the French movements, collectively known as the French Resistance (French: La Résistance) that fought against the Nazi German occupation of France and the collaborationist Vichy régime during the Second World War.
The ruins of the original village remain as a memorial to the dead and to represent similar sites and events. In 1999 French president Jacques Chirac dedicated a memorial museum, the Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour, near the entrance to the Village Martyr ("martyred village"). Its museum includes items recovered from the burned-out buildings ...
Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (Paris) Memorial to the patients of the Clermont psychiatric ward [35] [36] Memorial at Gurs internment camp [37] Royallieu-Compiègne internment camp memorial [38] Camp des Milles memorial (Aix-en-Provence) [39] Vélodrome d’Hiver memorial (Paris) [40] Memorial Museum to the Children of Vel d'Hiv [41]
History of the French Resistance from its inception up to the Liberation in World War II Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace: Le Bourget: Seine-Saint-Denis: Aerospace: Features 400 aircraft, 150 of which are on display, history of aviation, ballooning and space exploration Musée de l'histoire vivante: Montreuil: Seine-Saint-Denis: Local history
A Paris memorial honoring people who distinguished themselves by helping to rescue Jews in France during the country's Nazi occupation in World War II was defaced Tuesday with painted blood-red ...
The Mémorial de la France combattante (Memorial to Fighting France) is the most important memorial to French fighters of World War II (1939–1945). It is situated below Fort Mont-Valérien in Suresnes, in the western suburbs of Paris.