Deportation

The Musée-Mémorial des Enfants du Vel d’Hiv (Children of Vel d’Hiv Memorial Museum) in Orléans is part of the Centre d’Etude et de Recherche sur les Camps d’Internement dans le Loiret (Centre for Study and Research on the Loiret Internment Camps), or CERCIL.

The Musée de la Résistance Azuréenne (Azur Museum of Resistance) in Nice is a museum and research centre on resistance and deportation in the Azur region of France during the Second World War. A permanent exhibition presents records of local resistance and displays military weapons, uniforms, and equipment, printed materials, and artifacts of deportation.

The Musée Départemental de la Résistance Henri Queuille (Henri Queuille Departemental Museum of Resistance) in Neuvic presents the local history of resistance and deportation in the Haut-Corrèze region of Corrèze during the Second World War. The museum contains displays on local life under occupation, resistance activities, and deportation, and houses departmental records.

The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Ain (Ain Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Nantua presents the local history of Second World War resistance and deportation in the Ain region. Close to the Swiss border, Ain witnessed significant wartime resistance activities.

The Museo e Centro di Documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza (Museum and Documentation Centre of Deportation and Resistance) in Prato presents the national and local history of resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45, and of internment and deportation by German and fascist authorities. The museum also commemorates the mass execution in Figline of 29 Italian partisans of the Brigata Buricchi by German forces under the command of Major Karl Laqua on September 6, 1944.

The Casa della Memoria della Resistenza e della Deportazione di Vinchio (Vinchio House of Memory, Resistance, and Deportation) presents the history of resistance and deportation in the town of Vinchio and the surrounding community under German and fascist occupation from 1943 to 1945.

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.

The Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Departmental Museum of Ressistance and Deportation) in Manneville-sur-Risle presents the history of resistance and deportation in the Manneville-sur-Risle commune and the surrounding Eure département during the Second World War. The museum’s collections include military and civilian objects as well as photographs, letters, publications, and posters created during wartime which relate local experiences of occupation, resistance, and deportation.