Maison d’Izieu

The Maison d’Izieu (Izieu House) is a museum and memorial which presents the history of the Holocaust in France, particularly the experiences of Jewish children, and informs the visitor on the crimes committed during that time as well as the subsequent establishment of international laws and commemoration.

La Coupole: Centre d’Histoire et Planétarium 3D

The La Couple: Centre d’Histoire et Planétarium 3D (‘La Coupole’ Historic Centre and 3D Planetarium) site is a museum housed within a former German bunker complex and V2 Rocket Base. Designed by the German Organisation Todt and constructed from 1943 to 1944, the site was intended as a major launching point for V2 Rockets against targets in England.

Centre d’Interprétation de la Ligne de Démarcation

The Centre d’Interprétation de la Ligne de Démarcation (Interpretive Centre on the Demarcation Line) in Génelard describes itself as “the first institution in France” dedicated to specifically presenting the history of the French Demarcation Line which from June 22, 1940 to November 11, 1942 divided metropolitan France into the Occupied and Free Zones.

Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Forges-les-Eaux

The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Forges-les-Eaux (Forges-les-Eaux Museum of Resistance and Deportation) presents the history of resistance and deportation in the town and region during the Second World War.

Collections include military and civilian objects are assembled from both large private collections and individual donations and are presented in two major exhibition spaces, one on each floor of the two-story building. The ground floor space presents war, occupation, and resistance, and displays items including:

Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Picardie

The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Picardie (Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Picardie) in Tergnier presents the history of resistance and deportation in the region during the First and Second World Wars. The museum presents the region’s wartime experiences through three permanent exhibitions on the Second World War:

Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy

The Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy (Drancy Shoah Memorial) is located at the site of the former Camp de Drancy, a major internment, transit, and deportation site chiefly for Jewish peoples and operated by French and later German SS authorities from 1941 to 1944. Established in a large residential building built between 1931 and 1934 and designed as a modernist, urban living space with the name ‘Cité de la Muette’ (‘The Silent City’), the camp functioned as the most important transit point for French and foreign Jews taken in roundups and sent to death camps, usually Auschwitz.