Guided tour

Name: Guided tour
Start: 2018-09-15T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Camp de concentration du Vernet d'Ariège

Guided tour of the museum, of the Space-station Car and of the cemetery.

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

Museum redrawing the history(story) of the concentration camp of Vernet of the Ariège through documents, objects, photos (in particular 2000 photos face / profile of committing dating the end of 1939 and the beginning of 1940), drawings and a model of the concentration camp. New exhibition(exposure) presents what took place of 1939 in 1944 in this concentration camp. There is a flexible version of this exhibition(exposure) which we lend free to demand(request).
The cemetery between Vernet of the Ariège and Saverdun has from now on an environmental park with 5 historic panels(signs) and a square of nationalities. Our last researches(searches) allowed us to count more than 70 nationalities representing 5 continents for the committing.
It is also possible to visit the Space Station-car which is under way of arrangement(development). The future panels(signs) will redraw the history(story) of 6226 deported people and of 55 convoys of deportation which left this French concentration camp.
Already you can discover on a banner 35 metres long the index cards(forms) of internment of 178 foreigners deported on July 25th, 1940. It is about the first convoy of deportation of France left of the concentration camp of Vernet of the Ariège.
During these days, in our car, you will be able to see an exhibition(exposure) of paintings(boards) realised by Carlos Duchatellier, Haitian painter committed from 1941 till 1944 before its deportation towards the concentration camp of Alderney.
The registration(inscription) on the additional inventory of Historic monuments and Sites was actée on December 1st, 2015 unanimously.

About the location

Camp de concentration du Vernet d'Ariège

Place du village, 09700 Le Vernet

Ariege
Occitanie

The site of the old(former) concentration camp of Vernet of the Ariège offers 4 particular(special) places:
• the cemetery with its environmental park and its 5 panels(signs) of history(story) (free access); • both pillars of the entrance(entry) of the camp with the catchment basin (free access); • the Space Station-car (free access) with, since June 30th, 2018, a banner which presents the index cards(forms) of 178 foreigners who were deported on July 25th, 1940\. It is about the first convoy of deportation of France left of the concentration camp of Vernet of the Ariège; • the museum with its model, its numerous documents, drawings, objects, photographies.
The visit of these places of history(story) and of report(memory) allows to include what was a concentration camp in France: of their creation in 1938 by the circular of Minister of the Interior of the IIIth French Republic up to their closure(lock), on June 30th, 1944 for the concentration camp of Vernet of the Ariège. The Friendly creating on December 1st, 1944 obtained the registration(inscription) of 3 vestiges of the concentration camp (cemetery, station and entrance(entry)) in the additional inventory of Historic monuments and Sites on December 1st, 2015\. The Regional committee for Heritage and for Sites more decided there to register «the city(estate) of the married guards» as well as the surface of the concentration camp. Happy initiative when we see that an industrial pigsty could be instead installed(settled) of the old(former) concentration camp of Septfonds in the Tarn-et-Garonne.