Detail View: SHIMMER: Village Martyr
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Title:
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Village Martyr
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Caption:
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(The martyred village)
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Creation Date:
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1946
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Image Date:
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2011
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Period:
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20th century ; 21st century
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Location:
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Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne
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Country:
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FRANCE
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Display Creator:
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MARTY, Jean-Louis and Antonio CARRILERO
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Terms:
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Death tourism
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Image ID:
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11-2161
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Description:
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Exterior view: right hand side of the facade of the Centre de la Mémoire - access is via the staircase descending between rusted metal slabs, the exit takes the concrete steps towards the camera. The entire building fills the small valley but its flat roof lessens its visual impact to the site. The vertical metal slabs cut through the building symbolising the violence perpetrated to the village. They have rusted the same colour as much of the metal fragments scattered throughout the village. The only entrance to the village is through the Centre de la Mémoire via a tunnel underneath the main road. 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 (MARTY & CARRILERO, 1999) 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.
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Rights:
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© Sheffield Hallam University
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Permissions:
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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 >."
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Related Information:
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Oradour-sur-Glane. For more information see also < http://www.oradour.org > .
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Photographed by:
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Dave Ball
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Creator:
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MARTY, Jean-Louis
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Creator Role:
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Architect.
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Culture Gender:
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Male.
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Creator:
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CARRILERO, Antonio
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Creator Role:
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Interior designer.
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Culture Gender:
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Male.
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Subject Heading:
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Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944
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Subject Heading:
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Memorials -- France
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Subject Heading:
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
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Subject Heading:
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Monuments -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Museums -- France
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Subject Heading:
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Dark tourism
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