Memorial Site

The Site de Morrette in La Balme-de-Thuy contains three significant historical sites which present occupation, resistance, deportation, and liberation in the Haute-Savoie region during the Second World War: the Musée Départementale de la Résistance Haute-Savoyarde, the Mémorial Départementale de la Déportation, and the Nécropole Nationale de Gilères.

The Mémorial 39-45 (39-45 Memorial) in Saint-Malo is a memorial museum constructed within a concrete blockhouse located in the Fort d’Alet, formerly part of the German network of coastal defences during the Second World War. The small museum contains a permanent exhibit on Saint-Malo in wartime, and displays military weapons, equipment, and uniforms as well as preserved and reconstructed weapons and rooms from the original blockhouse.  

The Mémorial Pégasus (Pegasus Memorial) in Ranville is a museum and memorial to the activities of the British Army’s 6th Airborne Division during Normandy Landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy from June to September, 1944. Under the command of Major-General Richard Gale, the unit engaged in numerous offensive operations in support of the D-Day landings and the Allied advance to the Rhine.

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 Mausoleo Fosse Ardeatine (Fosse Ardeatine Mausoleum) commemorates the Fosse Ardeatine Massacre: the killing of 335 civilian residents of Rome by German SS forces under the command of German SIPO and SD Chief in Rome, Herbert Kappler on March 24, 1944. The massacre was carried out in retaliation for partisan attacks on German occupation forces, the Polizei Regiment Bozen on March 23, which result in the deaths of 33 German; the following day, German authorities begin rounding up civilians with the goal of executing ten Italians for each German death.

The Monumento Ossario ai Caduti Partigiani (Fallen Partisans Ossuary Monument) is located in Bologna’s Cimitero Monumentale della Certosa (Certosa Memorial Cemetary) and commemorates the names and resting place of more than 500 Italian partisans who were native to Bologna. It was inaugurated on October 31, 1959.

The Monumento au Caduti di Monte Sabbiuno (Mount Sabbiuno Monument to the Fallen) commemorates the execution of at least 53 Italian partisans by German forces, in two groups on December 14 and 23, 1944. The partisans were largely members of the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (GAP) and the 63a Brigate Bolero from the communities of Anzola, Calderara di Reno, and Amola di Piano, north-east of Bologna; they were captured by anti-partisan forces in the Winter of 1944, and executed.