Site de Morrette: Musée Départementale de la Résistance Haute-Savoyarde, Mémorial Départementale de la Déportation, et Nécropole Nationale de Gilères
The Site de Morrette in La Balme-de-Thuy contains three significant historical sites which present occupation, resistance, deportation, and liberation in the Haute-Savoie region during the Second World War: the Musée Départementale de la Résistance Haute-Savoyarde, the Mémorial Départementale de la Déportation, and the Nécropole Nationale de Gilères.
The Musée Départementale de la Résistance Haute-Savoyarde (Haute-Savoyarde Departmental Musuem of Resistance) presents the local history of occupation, resistance, deportation, and liberation through a permanent exhibit and physical artifacts and documents from the period; it was constructed in 1964.
The Mémorial Départementale de la Déportation (Departmental Deportation Memorial) was erected the following year: it commemorates deportation from the region, and presents witness testimonies form surviving deportees.
The Nécropole Nationale de Gilères, a national military cemetery, contains the remains of local inhabitants, resistants, and deportees who lost their lives during the Second World War.
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Site de Morette
74230 La Balme-de-Thuy
France