The Partisan Cemetery of Chiusa di Pesio commemorates the resting place of both named and anonymous partisans who died in the fight for liberation from German and fascist occupation in the Pesio Valley 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 Mémorial Nationale de la Prison de Montluc (Montluc Prison National Memorial) in Lyon is located at the site of the former Montluc prison, best known for its use by German occupation authorities to intern prisoners and deportees from January 1943 to August 1944.
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 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 Mémorial de la Résistance en Vercors (Memorial of Resistance in Vercors) commemorates the actions and the fallen of the French Resistance, notably the Maquis, in the region of the Vercors Massif during the Second World War. A geographically imposing and fairly remote plateau populated by scattered villages, the Vercors Massif provided an opportunity for members of the French Resistance to evade German and Vichy authorities and to organize unmolested.
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 Mémorial Jean Moulin (Jean Moulin Memorial) commemorates the former house of Dr. Frédéric Dugoujon where on June 21, 1943, Jean Moulin together with Dugoujon and other resistance leaders Henri Aubry, Raymond Aubrac, Bruno Larat, André Lassagne, Albert Lacaze, and Émile Schwarzfeld were arrested by German authorities. Moulin was detained at Lyon's Montluc Prison, and was tortured by Gestapo Chief Klaus Barbie; on July 8, 1943, he died as a result of his injuries.
The Musée de la Résistance du Mont-Mouchet (Museum of Resistance at Mont-Mouchet) commemorates the activities of French Resistance groups in the Mont-Mouchet and surrounding Auvergne region under the German occupation of France during the Second World War. The museum contains documents, photographs, period objects, and historical displays which provide insight on the war in general and on the motivations for, organization of, and activities conducted by local resistance groups specifically. At times, the Mont-Mouchet region served as a center for more than 2000 Resistance fighters.
The purpose of this website is to offer a guide to both general public and researchers of the museums of European political and violence, what content they offer and the topics that are not sufficiently represented. This website wants to help us to rethink the realities, shortcomings and possibilities of Public History in Europe.
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
