The memorial of Dun-les-Places passes on(transmits) the memory(souvenir) of events and of men(people), victims of Nazi barbarism.
He(It) tells the story of a village-martyr and its inhabitants. Facts concentrate on 3 days: on June 26th, 27th and 28th, 1944. Three days which deeply mark the life of Dun-les-Places. Three days in the courts(yards) of which the village is ransacked, burnt down and 27 men(people) are shot and massacred.
This centre of interpretation(performance) is a place devoted to memory. The internal route(course), compound(made up) of three rooms, suggests the word of the survivors and shows physical and moral reconstruction, after an event of an extreme violence. Exhibition(Exposure) presents media(audiovisual) creations which gives the place(square) to evidence and to emotion.
Outside, the route(course) in the village offers to the visitor of places steeped in history and of report(memory).