Deportation Memorial (Mémorial de la Déportation)

Deportation Memorial (Mémorial de la Déportation)

Square de l'Ile de France. (Open Map)

Description

The Memorial to the Victims of the Deportation, erected in 1962, serves as a sober reminder of the 200,000 French citizens - including 76,000 Jews, 11,000 of whom were children - that were cruelly torn away from their homes and transported to Nazi concentration camps, never to return. It is a solemn site characterized by a barred window overlooking the Seine, a bleak, rough-concrete courtyard, and the Tomb of the Unknown Deportee.