Deportation

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.

The Mémorial de l’Internement et de la Déportation (Memorial of Internment and Deportation) in Compiègne is located on the site of the former Camp de Royallieu, an internment, transit, and deportation camp employed by German occupation authorities from June 1941 to August 1944. First constructed as a military barracks by the French Army in 1913, the site was repurposed following the occupation of France.

The Musée de la Résistance de Châteaubriant (Châteaubriant Museum of Resistance) is installed within a converted farmhouse located near the former entrance to Choisel Internment Camp (Centre de Séjour Surveillé de Choisel). Initially established in 1940 by the French Third Republic to serve as a prisoner of war camp, it was ultimately employed by the German Army to detain approximately 45 000 French and a small number of British soldiers in the aftermath of the Battle of France.

The Musée de la Résistance, de l'Internement et de la Déportation (Museum of Resistance, Internment, and Deportation) in Chamalières records the history of resistance, internment, and deportation in the region and in France from 1939 to 1945 as well as the broader history of the Second World War. The museum describes the period through three key themes: the Rise of Nazism; Resistance, Occupation, and Daily Wartime Life; and Internment, Ghettos, Deportation, and the Nuremberg Trials.

The Centre Régional de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Castelnau-le-Lez (Castelnau-le-Lez Regional Centre for Resistance and Deportation) is a centre for research and learning on the local history of resistance and deportation in Castelnau-le-Lez. It is intended "to perpetuate the memory of resistance and deportation, especially among young people, and to serve as a pedagogical tool for public knowledge" of resistance and deportation during the Second World War.

The Centre National d'Études de la Résistance et de la Déportation Edmond Michelet (Edmond Michelet Centre for National Studies on Resistance and Deportation) in Brive-la-Gaillarde is located within the former home of Michelet, a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. With the German occupation of France in 1940, Michelet became involved in resistance efforts: under the name "Duval", he organized a group within the Combat movement, and in 1942 served as regional leader of the Movements Unis de la Résistance.

The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation du Cher (Cher Museum of Resistance and Deportation) records the history of resistance and deportation in the Cher départment during the Second World War. With the German occupation of France and the establishment of the Vichy Regime, the line of demarcation between the two zones spilt Cher in half: this posed challenges for the local population, and offered opportunities for resistance. The museum presents the history of local resistance through objects, documents, and testimony from those who experienced it.

The Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire (Centre of Resistance, Deportation, and Memory) in Blois examines the history of resistance in Blois and the surrounding Loir-et-Cher départment during the Second World War. The museum presents a permanent exhibition containing period artifacts of resistance including documents, photographs, uniforms. etc. which describes resistance both locally and within the broader context of the war. 

The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Besançon (Besançon Museum of Resistance and Deportation) is located within the Besançon Citadel, a Vauban fortification begun in 1668 and completed in 1711. German occupation of France during the Second World War saw the citadel employed as a detention camp for captured members of the French Resistance; approximately 100 were executed there by firing squad from 1941 to 1945.

The Centre Résistance et Déportation Arles et Pays d'Arles (Center for Resistance and Deportation in Arles and the Arles Region) records the history of Arles and the surrounding region from 1939 to 1945 through the lens of resistance and deportation. Its goal is to act as a place of collection, conservation, and research of documents and testimonies from the period, and to serve as a center of memory and historical education for local residents.