COLLECTION NAME:
SHIMMER
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SHU~3~3
SHIMMER
Collection
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Title:
Village Martyr
title
Village Martyr
Title
false
Creation Date:
1946
creation_date
1946
Creation Date
false
Image Date:
2011
image_date
2011
Image Date
false
Period:
20th century ; 21st century
period
20th century ; 21st century
Period
false
Location:
Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne
location
Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne
Location
false
Country:
FRANCE
country
FRANCE
Country
false
Terms:
Death tourism
terms
Death tourism
Terms
false
Image ID:
11-2132
image_id
11-2132
Image ID
false
Description:
Interior view: viewing cases in the crypt containing objects found in the ruined village. On June 10, 2011 642 inhabitants of this village by rounded up and killed by a German Waffen-SS Detachment. Their bodies were burned and all the houses in the village destroyed. In 1946 General de Gaulle declared the site should be preserved as a memorial. A new village was built to the immediate north-west of the village. The local cemetery contains a memorial to the massacre and two glass-topped 'coffins' containing ash and fire-damaged fragments including bone. A crypt under the grass space in front of the cemetery houses displays of fire-damaged relics from the village. In 1999 the Centre de la Mémoire was built south-west of the village through which visitors pass to enter the site. This visitor centre provides information on the background to the atrocity and is sited in a hollow to lessen visual impact.
description
Interior view: viewing cases in the crypt containing objects found in the ruined village. On June 10, 2011 642 inhabitants of this village by rounded up and killed by a German Waffen-SS Detachment. Their bodies were burned and all the houses in the village destroyed. In 1946 General de Gaulle declared the site should be preserved as a memorial. A new village was built to the immediate north-west of the village. The local cemetery contains a memorial to the massacre and two glass-topped 'coffins' containing ash and fire-damaged fragments including bone. A crypt under the grass space in front of the cemetery houses displays of fire-damaged relics from the village. In 1999 the Centre de la Mémoire was built south-west of the village through which visitors pass to enter the site. This visitor centre provides information on the background to the atrocity and is sited in a hollow to lessen visual impact.
Description
false
Rights:
© Sheffield Hallam University
rights
© Sheffield Hallam University
Rights
false
Permissions:
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
permissions
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
Permissions
false
Related Information:
Oradour-sur-Glane. For more information see also < http://www.oradour.… > .
related_information
Oradour-sur-Glane. For more information see also < http://www.oradour.org > .
Related Information
false
Photographed by:
Dave Ball
photographed_by
Dave Ball
Photographed by
false
Subject Heading:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
subject_heading
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944
subject_heading
Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Memorials -- France
subject_heading
Memorials -- France
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Exhibitions -- France
subject_heading
Exhibitions -- France
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Dark tourism
subject_heading
Dark tourism
Subject Heading
false