Resistance

The Musée de la Résistance d'Anterrieux (Museum of Resistance in Anterrieux) was opened in 1999 to record and commemorate the actions of local Resistance and Maquis groups and of the French Forces of the Interior in the region during the Second World War. In particular, the museum describes the events of the Bataille du Réduit de la Truyère (Battle of the Truyère Redoubt) on June 20, 1944 and the actions of the 7ième Compagnie des Maquis d'Auvergne. 

The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Angoulême was opened in 1993 to record and commemorate the experiences of residents in the surrounding Charente départment during the Second World War.

L'Espace Mémoriel de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Memorial to Resistance and Deportation) traces the history of resistance and deportation in Agen and in the surrounding Lot-et-Garonne départment from 1939 through 1944. The memorial space contains period documents and objects, and is designed to capture the varied wartime experiences of citizens, local resistance groups, and those who faced or experienced deportation.

The Museum was opened in 2003 inside a 18th century complex. The same building is also home to the National Film Archives of the Italian Resistance, the Piedmont Institute for History of the Italian Resistance and Contemporary Society and the Primo Levi International Study Center. The permanent display - "Turin 1938 – 1948.

Result resistant desire to convey to younger generations the history of the Resistance and Deportation of Picardy, a museum was opened in 1986 in Picardy.

The initiative for the creation of the Museum of the Resistance and Deportation of Picardy returns to DROMAS Etienne, head of group B (district of Laon) FFI group in which gather all the organizations of the Resistance (AS, CMO ...) .

It is now managed by the Friends of the Museum and its president Fernand Le Blanc.

The Breton Resistance Museum in Saint-Marcel, in the Landes de Lanvaux, pays homage to this group which played such an important role in the liberation of Brittany. Built on a site which saw actual fighting, now 6 hectares of wooded grounds, the museum offers 1500 sq. metres of exhibits depicting the involvement of the Bretons during the Second World War. The national museum collections concerning the French paratroopers of the time are also held here.

The Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Centre for History of Resistance and Deportation) in Lyon is a museum and a centre for research and study on resistance and deportation in the city during the Second World War.

The focus of Verzetsmusuem is about the German Occupation as well as Nazi rule in Holland during the second world war between 1940 and 1945. The museum aptly show the persecution of Jews by the Nazis and world war two in general. The permanent exhibition covers all forms of resistance: strikes, forging of documents, helping people to go into hiding, underground newspapers, escape routes, armed resistance, espionage.

This is the main memorial (as well as research/educational) centre in Norway about the camps for political prisoners, POWs and Jews that were established by the Nazis during Germany's occupation of Norway. The centre's scope goes somewhat beyond that narrower framework and also touches on other human rights issues and genocides of the post-WWII period.