Free visits to the Memorial of Deportations

Name: Visitas gratuitas al Memorial de las Deportaciones
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Mémorial des déportations

17 i 18 septiembre 2022Passed

Repression and persecution in Marseille during the Second World War.
At the foot of Fort Saint-Jean, facing the old quarters completely destroyed in 1943, the Memorial of Deportations, installed in a bunker, tells the story of the policies of repression and persecution implemented in Marseille during the Second World War: films, individual and collective stories, testimonials, artistic video creation...

About the location

Mémorial des déportations

Avenue Vaudoyer 13002 Marseille

Bouches-du-Rhône
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Located at the foot of Fort Saint-Jean, the Deportation Memorial, formerly known as the Death Camps, is housed in a Second World War blockhouse, which has certainly served as a health service for the German army. It belongs to the whole of the defensive lock of the port of Marseille and more broadly of the Wall of the Mediterranean to prevent a landing of the Allies in Provence. The Memorial was inaugurated in 1995, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of the camps and closed in 2012 during the work of MUCEM. It is a place of transmission of history, of memory of the victims of Nazism and the Vichy regime who died in deportation and of the events specific to Marseilles (roundups, evacuations and destruction of the Old Port, internments, deportations). The City is once again opening it up to the public with a renewed scientific and cultural perspective.