From internment to deportation: visit of the Pithiviers station and the former camp
This in-depth tour will allow you to discover the history of the Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande stations during the Second World War. Through 8 railway convoys, they witnessed the deportation of nearly 8100 Jews from France to Auschwitz-Birkenau. In support of archival documents and audiovisual media, you will be described how the collaboration between the Vichy regime and Nazi Germany allowed the arrest, internment and deportation of Jewish men, women and children. A total of nearly 16,000 Jews passed through these places. Accompanied by a museum mediator, the tour will continue with a visit to the site of the Pithiviers camp, of which only the infirmary building remains. Through testimonies and photographs, you will question the conditions of internment of Jews. A stop will be made at the memorial and the steles of the six convoys from Pithiviers. After the roundup and internment, the visit will conclude on the quay that was used for the deportation. A visit between history and memory.