Guided tour of the Senegalese Tata National Necropolis

Name: Guided tour of the Senegalese Tata National Necropolis
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Nécropole Nationale du Tata Sénégalais

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

by appointment

Registration

magali.molina@onacvg.fr

ONaCVG

The Senegalese Tata is the one and only national necropolis dedicated to the Senegalese skirmishers and the Battle of France of 1940 – a high place of our collective memory. In Senegalese Tata means enclosure of sacred land where dead warriors are buried in battle. In this cemetery, inaugurated on November 8, 1942, rest 188 named or unknown soldiers all from the great Africa and fallen in the battle of Chasselay-Montluzin in June 1940.

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

Patrimoine vivant

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Nécropole Nationale du Tata Sénégalais

D100 Route de Chasselay, 69380 Les Chères

Rhône
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

The Senegalese Tata is a military cemetery that pays tribute to the colonial soldiers who died for France during the fighting from 19 to 20 June 1940\. It is a unique place in France because of its location, architecture and history. Dead in battle or victims of racist massacres,188 Senegalese riflemen, 2 legionnaires and 6 North African soldiers rest in this African-inspired precinct. The Tata is erected near the place called "Vide Sac" in Chasselay where 50 Senegalese soldiers of the 25th RTS were massacred. National necropolis since 1966, owned by the Ministry of Armed Forces, it is managed by the National Office of Combatants and War Victims.