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Plaques commémoratives
Starting in 1894, the building at 14 avenue Berthelot was the Army Medical School. The Germans requisitioned it on November 27, 1942, and in the spring of 1943, it became Gestapo headquarters, which it remained until the accidental bombing on May 26, 1944, that destroyed a part of the building. (The American bombers had targeted the nearby rail lines.) Both women and men were brutally tortured and executed here. In 1992, a memory site took over the locale: the CHRD Center for the History of Resistance and Deportation. Eight commemorative plaques are affixed to the facades.
This one renders homage to the numberless resistants and hostages... Read more
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- Commemorative plaque
- Maquis
- Fighting
- Free groups
- Civil resistance
- Deportation
- Persecution
- Repression
- Collaboration
- Internement
- Bombings
- Rhone
- Genocide
- Population movements
- Armed Resistance
Starting in 1894, the building at 14 avenue Berthelot was the Army Medical School. The Germans requisitioned it on November 27, 1942, and in the spring of 1943, it became Gestapo headquarters, which it remained until the accidental bombing on May 26, 1944, that destroyed a part of the building. (The American bombers had targeted the nearby rail lines.) Both women and men were brutally tortured and executed here. In 1992, a memory site took over the locale: the CHRD Center for the History of Resistance and Deportation. Eight commemorative plaques are affixed to the facades.
This one renders homage to the numberless resistants and hostages that passed through this place.