A Walk Around Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation, Paris
The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (English: Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation) is a memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. It is located in Paris, France on the site of a former morgue, underground behind Notre Dame on Île de la Cité. It was designed by French modernist architect Georges-Henri Pingusson and was inaugurated by Charles de Gaulle in 1962.
Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation, located in Paris, France, is a memorial to the more than 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Designed by French architect, writer, teacher, and town planner Georges-Henri Pingusson (1894–1978), the memorial was inaugurated by then-President Charles de Gaulle on April 12, 1962. In the year of its opening, a brochure produced by the French survivors' group Reseau de souvenir described the memorial as a crypt, hollowed out of the sacred isle, the cradle of our nation, which incarnates the soul of France -- a place where its spirit dwells.
The memorial is shaped like a ship's prow; the crypt is accessible by two staircases and a lowered square protected by a metal portcullis. The crypt leads to a hexagonal rotunda that includes two chapels containing earth and bones from concentration camps. The walls display literary excerpts. Pingusson intended that its long and narrow subterranean space convey a feeling of claustrophobia. The memorial's entrance is narrow, marked by two concrete blocks. Inside is the tomb of an unknown deportee who was killed at the camp in Neustadt. Along both walls of the narrow, dimly lit chamber are 200,000 glass crystals with light shining through, meant to symbolize each of the deportees who died in the concentration camps; at the end of the tunnel is a single bright light. Ashes from the camps, contained within urns, are positioned at both lateral ends. Both ends of the chamber have small rooms that seem to depict prison cells. Opposite the entrance is a stark iron gate overlooking the Seine at the tip of the Île de la Cité.
The memorial is open daily from 10am to 5pm from October through March, and from 10am to 7pm from April through September. According to Time Out Paris, an annual Day of Remembrance ceremony is hosted at the memorial on the last Sunday of April.
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추방당한 파리의 순교자들 Le Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation
[2019 프랑스 UCC영상공모전 입상작]
기획의도 : 파리의 멋진 건축과 장소들 중에서 가장 좋아하는 곳을 꼽으라면, 시떼 섬의 ‘숨겨진 건축 – 유배 순교자 기념물’ 이라 대답하려한다.
'유배 순교자 기념물'은 보이지 않는 건축의 힘을 증명하며 간결하고 강렬한 언어로 우리를 이끌어줌으로서 ‘추방당한 프랑스 순교자들'의 운명을 함께 비탄하고 기억하고자 한다.
전쟁과 일제강점기, 반일과 친일의 역사를 가진 나라의 국민으로서 ‘유배순교자 기념물’이 전하는 ‘비시 프랑스’의 역사는 낯설지만은 않은데, 역사적 진실을 만나기 위한 노력, 그리고 위로와 희망을 위한 공동의 의지로서, ‘추모 건축 Le mémorial은 반드시 필요하고 중요하다.’라는 이야기를 전하고 싶다.
구성내용 : ‘유배 순교자 기념물’ - 장소에 대한 설명.
‘비시 프랑스’ - 제 2차 세계대전, 독일에 항복을 요청하며 탄생한 자발적인 대독 협력 정권이자 친독 정권.
건축가(Georges-Henri Pingusson)와 건축, 그리고 공간에 대한 묘사.
메모리얼 내부 - 이름없는 사람들의 무덤, 추모비, 전시 자료들에 대한 이야기.
‘유배 순교자 기념물’ - 경계의 건축, 시간이 설계된 건축, 위로와 추모의 건축.
Mémorial des Martyrs de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Rennes
Cérémonie du 27 mai 2011 à l'occasion de l'anniversaire du Conseil National de la Résistance, au mémorial des Martyrs de la Résistance et de la Déportation, avec la participation de Stéphane Hessel Diplomate, Ambassadeur de France.
Mémorial à la Déportation
France. Belgica. Holland a visité avec l'aide des amis merveilleux ...
Sauf aux Riverains: the riverine memorial of Georges-Henri Pingusson
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Riverine has echoes in English of the sign you see on streets near to rivers in France: ‘sauf aux riverains’. This refers to the access given to locals to the narrow passageways leading down to the river, and seeks to bar ‘foreigners’ from getting too close to the water. In towns, most buildings like to keep a healthy distance between themselves and the flowing river, apart from those parts that have an intimate relationship with the water, such as landing stages and warehouses. Nonetheless, the general principle obtains, that urbanised rivers become embellished with raised embankments, raising houses and gardens well above the waterline, and out of harm’s way. We see this most clearly in those cities with well-developed riverside terraces, such as in Dresden with its Brühlsche Terrassen, in London with its Adelphi development of the late eighteenth century, and generally by the banks of the Seine in Paris, where the streets end abruptly in a precipitous canyon into which the river appears to be sunk, to be reached by narrow stone steps accessed through chinks in the closely packed bouquinistes lining either bank.
At the extreme eastern end of the Ile de la Cité, behind the chevet of the cathedral of Notre Dame, you find a low concrete mass split in two places by narrow stairs. Descending, you pass between a pair of concrete ‘grindstones’ and arrive at a hard, concrete courtyard, hemmed in by bush-hammered walls. Above, the sky; while ahead, you see and hear the Seine rushing past, its waters virtually level with the pavement at your feet. This was the scene designed by the French architect Georges-Henri Pingusson (1894-1978), a late masterpiece completed in 1962. The external sunken courtyard leads to a labyrinth of cave-like spaces that tunnel beneath the tip of the island; the whole ensemble is the monument to the deported, the place of ‘collective memory’ for Paris to remember those of its citizens, largely Jews, who - during the German occupation in the Second World War – were rounded up and deported, eventually east to the extermination camps in the Reich.
Pingusson’s work is, to borrow the subtitle of the monograph on his oeuvre by Simon Texier, ‘la poétique pour doctrine’, and represents one of the great brooding and evocative spaces of modern architecture. A ‘non-building’ compared to the more orthodox output of his practice hitherto, it is accomplished by recourse to simple geometries and everyday materials, yet manages to evoke an almost mythical atmosphere, as if one were descending into Hades, stopping awhile at the lapping waters before Charon, the ferryman, carries us off. The spatial configuration and material presence remind us of other, uncanny, riverside ensembles, such as the Traitors’ Gate at the Tower of London, the skateboarders’ undercroft at the South Bank, or Harry Lime being given chase through the sewers of Vienna, before they empty into the Danube. The location behind Notre Dame lends the memorial a sacred aura, while its location upstream from the site of the 1961 massacre of peaceful demonstrators against the Algerian War, led by the Paris police chief (and later convicted war criminal) Maurice Papon, further intensifies this, the most haunting of memorials to the infamies of the twentieth century.
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Gerald Adler is Deputy Head of the Kent School of Architecture and Director of the Masters in Architecture and Urban Design. His main research interests lie in twentieth-century architectural history - British: Robert Maguire & Keith Murray, 2012, German: ‘The German Reform Theatre: Heinrich Tessenow and eurhythmic performance space at Dresden-Hellerau’, 2015 and ‘Energising the Building Edge: Siegfried Ebeling, Bauhaus bioconstructivist’, 2014, and French: ‘Sauf aux Riverains: the riverine memorial of Georges-Henri Pingusson’, 2017 (forthcoming). He jointly organised the AHRA (Architectural Humanities Research Association) 2012 Scale and Kent’s 2014 Riverine conferences, and co-edited the resultant books.
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Le Premier Ministre Manuel Valls . Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation 24/04/2016
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Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation.
Ne jamais hésiter à se souvenir des maux du passé pour ne jamais hésiter face aux menaces du présent.
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Holocaust Memorials in Paris
In back of Notre Dame, and in Pere LaChaise, there are a number of memorials to the victims of the deportation of French Jews. We were in Paris during June 2010. Chassidic Kaddish sung by Dorothea Fayne.
Visiting the Deportation Memorial in Paris
The Deportation Memorial honors the 200,000 people, mostly Jews, who were deported from Paris to concentration camps during World War II. The Deportation Memorial is right across the street from Notre Dame, on Île de la Cité. They do not allow videography but this is a slideshow capturing the photographs I took inside the memorial. Let us never forget World War II or the Holocaust.
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A Walk Around Île de la Cité, Paris
The Île de la Cité is one of two remaining natural islands in the Seine within the city of Paris (the other being the Île Saint-Louis). It is the centre of Paris and the location where the medieval city was refounded.
The western end has held a palace since Merovingian times, and its eastern end since the same period has been consecrated to religion, especially after the 10th-century construction of a cathedral preceding today's Notre-Dame. The land between the two was, until the 1850s, largely residential and commercial, but has since been filled by the city's Prefecture de Police, Palais de Justice, Hôtel-Dieu hospital, and Tribunal de commerce. Only the westernmost and northeastern extremities of the island remain residential today, and the latter preserves some vestiges of its 16th-century canon's houses. As of 2013, the island's population was 981. The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation, a memorial to the 200,000 people deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War, is located at the upriver end of the island.
From early times wooden bridges linked the island to the riverbanks on either side, the Grand Pont (the Pont au Change) spanning the wider reach to the Right Bank, and the Petit Pont spanning the narrower crossing to the Left Bank. The first bridge rebuilt in stone (in 1378) was at the site of the present Pont Saint-Michel, but ice floes carried it away with the houses that had been built on it in 1408. The Grand Pont or Pont Notre-Dame, also swept away at intervals by floodwaters, and the Petit Pont, were rebuilt by Fra Giovanni Giocondo at the beginning of the 16th century. The six arches of the Pont Notre-Dame supported gabled houses, some of half-timbered construction, until all were demolished in 1786.
The Île de la Cité remains the heart of Paris. All road distances in France are calculated from the 0 km point located in the Place du Parvis de Notre-Dame, the square facing Notre-Dame's pair of western towers.
Three medieval buildings remain on the Île de la Cité:
Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, built from 1163 on the site of a church dedicated to Saint Étienne, which in turn occupied a sacred pagan site of Roman times. During the French Revolution the cathedral was badly damaged, then restored by Viollet-le-Duc. The Cathedral was damaged in a fire on 15 April 2019, while undergoing the initial stages of a massive renovation- materials from the renovation are currently believed to have started the devastating, large fire.
Louis IX's Sainte-Chapelle (1245), built as a reliquary to house the Crown of Thorns and a piece of the True Cross, enclosed within the mid-19th century Palais de Justice.
Conciergerie prison, where Marie Antoinette awaited execution in 1793.
Off journée déportation
30 avril 2000
La journée nationale du souvenir de la déportation. Un hommage aux dizaines de milliers de victimes. Entre 1942 et 1944, tous victimes de la folie meurtrière du 3ème REICH, parmi lesquels 75.000 juifs dont plus de 10.000 enfants ont été déportés de France. A Paris, la première cérémonie se déroulait cet après midi au mémorial du martyr juif inconnu en présence de Catherine TASCA, de Jean Pierre MASSERET secrétaire d'état aux anciens combattants, et Jean TIBERI. Une deuxième cérémonie en fin d'après midi au mémorial de la déportation, puis à l'Arc de Triomphe. Images d'archive INA
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A day at the Holocaust museum in Paris
I was really taken by the modern Shoah Museum that I discovered in Paris.
it is one of the most moving and well attended museums in France, an awareness-raising center that presents the history of genocide during WWII.
you have walls displaying 76,000 names of Jewish men, women and children who were murdered and who died without a grave. The crypt contains ashes of victims collected from the camps.
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JOURNEE NATIONALE DU SOUVENIR DES VICTIMES ET DES HEROS DE LA DEPORTATION
24 avril 2016 - LA TREMBLADE - 62e journée nationale du souvenir des victimes et des héros de la déportation
Deportation Memorial - Paris, Île-de-France, France
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Deportation Memorial Paris
Located on the Île de la Cité, this memorial is dedicated to the 200,000 French citizens who died in concentration camps during World War II.
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- ... Then we tried to see the Deportation Memorial commemorating the Nazi tragedy in France but it was closed so we headed back to the hotel to meet my college friend and sorority ...
- ... I then moved on to the Deportation Memorial dedicated to Holocaust Victims, then to a lovely church St ...
- ... With people visiting me every weekend, I have also had the chance to see Sacre Coeur, Moulin Rouge, Deportation Memorial and my favorite of all, the Paris Opera House ...
- ... Today we visited: Ile Cite a creperie :) Notre-Dame de Paris Deportation Memorial Ile St ...
- ... After the immensity of the Cathedral I wandered over to the Deportation Memorial across the street ...
- ... On Tuesday (our last day in Paris ), we headed to the Deportation Memorial, where they've recognized the 200,000 victims of WWII ...
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- Crystal-Lined Hall in Deportation Memorial by The_stamms from a blog titled Paris As Birthday Cake
- Deportation Memorial by The_stamms from a blog titled Paris As Birthday Cake
- The Deportation Memorial by Phillipsb1 from a blog titled WEekend in Paris
- Deportation Memorial by Vannhansen from a blog titled Paris Heat Wave
- Deportation Memorial by Tmarooch from a blog titled City of Lights
- Deportation Memorial by Pagelsineurope from a blog titled Notre-Dame...among other things
- Deportation Memorial by Bucketlist10 from a blog titled Great day for a walk!
- Deportation Memorial by Corben from a blog titled Eiffel Tower and Ile de la Cite
- Deportation Memorial by Syurash from a blog titled Weekend with Brynn, in Paris