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The Musée Airborne (Airborne Museum) in Sainte-Mère-Église commemorates and displays artifacts from the American airborne infantry of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, and their role in the Normandy Landings and the Battle of Normandy from June to August, 1944.

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.

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 du 19 Août 1942 (Memorial August 19, 1942) commemorates the failed Anglo-Canadian raid on the German-occupied coastal town of Dieppe, and the loss of life that occurred there on August 19, 1942. Codenamed Operation Jubilee, the raid involved the participation of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division led by Major General J.H. Roberts.

The Big Red One Assault Museum commemorates and records the actions of the United States’ 1st Infantry Division in the Battle of Normandy, following its landing at nearby Omaha Beach in 1944. The 1st Infantry Division, known as ‘Big Red One’ in reference to its large, red numeral ‘1’ combat service identification badge or shoulder patch, is a longstanding infantry unit organized in 1917 for service in France in response to American participation in the First World War.

The Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Normandie (Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy) presents in detail the military operations which took place during the Battle of Normandy, following the Normandy Landings, from June 7 to August 29, 1944. Displays present a day-by-day chronology of the invasion, and describe the liberation of Bayeux on June 7 followed by advances further inland. The timeline, goals, logistics, and results of individual operations are described.

The Arras Memorial, located within the Cimetière Militaire du Faubourg d'Amiens (Faubourg d'Amiens Military Cemetery), commemorates the 34 808 British, South African, and New Zealand soldiers killed in action in the Arras region during the First World War, between Spring 1917 and August 1918, who have no known resting place. Many of these soldiers participated in the Arras Offensive of April and May 1917, and the German Spring Offensive of 1918. Adjacent to the memorial are the graves of over 2650 British and Commonwealth soldiers, including 10 unidentified.

War belongs in the museum. That is the motto of the War Museum Overloon. The War Museum Overloon presents the history of the Second World War. Here you see how it can be that in five years’ time more than fifty million people lost their lives, but also how the oppressed people resourcefully coped with restrictions and shortages. There is attention to the opposition, but also to the persecution.

The Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 1992–1995 holds a rich collection of items and makes use of a multidisciplinary approach in helping visitors research and become more familiar with events that took place during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995.

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at Auschwitz I and 171 at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. On the museum grounds stand several hundred camp buildings and ruins, including the ruins of the gas chambers and crematoria, over a dozen kilometers of camp fence, camp roads, and the railroad spur ("ramp") at Birkenau.