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Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation

Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation

Paris, France

Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation
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About Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation

The Mémorial des martyrs de la Déportation 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.

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