Mémorial des Déportations

The Mémorial des Déportations (Deportations Memorial) in Marseille is a memorial to occupation, repression, persecution, and deportation in the city during the Second World War in general, and to the deportations which occurred under German occupation in 1943 in particular.

Located within a former casemate constructed by German authorities and the Organisation Todt in 1943 as part of coastal fortifications against an Allied landing in the south of France, the site is both a museum and a memorial. A permanent exhibition relates the wartime context and the experiences of Marseille as part of Vichy, and presents in detail the events of January and February 1943, following German occupation, in which mass round-ups saw the destruction of Jewish homes and the deportation of nearly 2500 men, women, and children to concentration and death camps. As a place of memory and education, the museum is also a memorial to the wartime fallen of Marseille.