Discovery of the memorial of the martyrs of the Deportation

Name: Discovery of the memorial of the martyrs of the Deportation
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Martyrs of the Deportation Memorial opens its doors!

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

ECPAD Jessica Redouane

Saturday 17, from 10am to 7pm and Sunday 18 September, from 10am to 5:30pm Last entry 30 minutes before closing Free entry
Please note: Saturday 17 September, from 1pm to 3pm: Participatory reading of the testimonies of the survivors of the deportations.
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Memorial of the Martyrs of the Deportation opens its doors and invites you, through multiple visits in foreign languages and themes to discover its architecture, its history and the memories it has carried and transmitted for 80 years. The memorial of the martyrs of the Deportation on the Ile de la Cité in Paris, wanted by the association the Memory Network and entrusted to the architect Georges-Henri Pingusson, was inaugurated on April 12, 1962 by General de Gaulle. A singular work, it suggests certain characteristic aspects of the world of concentration camps: imprisonment, oppression, impossible escape. Involving the visitor, the memorial evokes recollection towards a crypt preserving the remains of an unknown deportee. In order to reinforce the significance of the memorial and its impact on a large audience, especially the younger ones, an additional educational course was inaugurated in April 1975 in the upper halls. Renovated in spring 2016, it is this route that is proposed to you to discover. This new museography, resulting from the latest historical work, allows to study the singularities of the different deportations while bringing them together in the tribute of the Nation.

About the location

Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation

Square de l’Île-de-France 7 quai de l'Archevêché 75004 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Designed by architect Pingusson at the tip of the Ile de la Cité, the Memorial of the Martyrs of the Deportation perpetuates the memory of the 200,000 French victims of the deportation. It was in 1953 that the Réseau du Souvenir decided to erect a memorial in memory of the 200,000 French deportees. The choice is made of a Memorial practically invisible from the outside, similar to a funerary slab and developing in the basement. It is designed by the architect Pingusson, close to the avant-garde architects, and who distinguished himself in the reconstruction of cities devastated during the war. The very expressive architecture of the Memorial aims to translate the hell of deportation. It includes a crypt with a gallery lined with glass facets; the play of materials and symbols, especially around the triangle, is particularly marked. The inauguration by General de Gaulle took place on 12 April 1962\. Every year the Memorial is part of the ceremonies of the National Day of Remembrance of