Located at the bottom of Saint-Jean Fort, the memorial of the Death camps was inaugurated in 1995 on the occasion of the 50th birthday of the freedom of the camps.
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It is located in a blockhaus of the second world war built by the german army as a part of defensive lockdown to prevent an allied landing in provence.
In 2019, it has been renovated in a bigger concept of Memorial of the deportations in order to realize the singularity of Marseille during the Second World War : the main refuge city in the non-occupied zone, a transit city, a destroyed city, a strategic port city. The Memorial contextualises the policies of genocidal deportation and repression organised in Marseille and its region thanks to maps, movies, testimonies, victim's stories because born jewish or repressed as politic resistant or hostage. The exhibition deals with tragic events of 1943 led by the Nazis with Vichy collaboration : rafle , deportation and destruction of the old districts and north bank of the Old port.
The Memorial of deportations is combined with the Marseille history museum .
Free admission within the limits capacity.
Accessible for disabled
In 2019, it has been renovated in a bigger concept of Memorial of the deportations in order to realize the singularity of Marseille during the Second World War : the main refuge city in the non-occupied zone, a transit city, a destroyed city, a strategic port city. The Memorial contextualises the policies of genocidal deportation and repression organised in Marseille and its region thanks to maps, movies, testimonies, victim's stories because born jewish or repressed as politic resistant or hostage. The exhibition deals with tragic events of 1943 led by the Nazis with Vichy collaboration : rafle , deportation and destruction of the old districts and north bank of the Old port.
The Memorial of deportations is combined with the Marseille history museum .
Free admission within the limits capacity.
Accessible for disabled
It is located in a blockhaus of the second world war built by the german army as a part of defensive lockdown to prevent an allied landing in provence.
In 2019, it has been renovated in a bigger concept of Memorial of the deportations in order to realize the singularity of Marseille during the Second World War : the main refuge city in the non-occupied zone, a transit city, a destroyed city, a strategic port city. The Memorial contextualises the policies of genocidal deportation...
In 2019, it has been renovated in a bigger concept of Memorial of the deportations in order to realize the singularity of Marseille during the Second World War : the main refuge city in the non-occupied zone, a transit city, a destroyed city, a strategic port city. The Memorial contextualises the policies of genocidal deportation...
Openings
Openings
All year 2025 - Closed on monday
Location
Location
Spoken languages
Spoken languages
Environment
Environment
- Town location
- Close to a public transportation
- Bus stop < 500 m
- Subway station < 500 m
- In the historic centre
