Mémorial of the deportations

  • Museum
  • Military
  • Wartime memories
Avenue Vaudoyer, 13002 Marseille 2ème
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.
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

Services

Services

Car park

Accessibility

Accessibility

Accessible for self-propelled wheelchairs

Accepted customers

Accepted customers

  • Groups

Openings

Openings

All year 2025 - Open everyday

Location

Location

Mémorial of the deportations
Avenue Vaudoyer, 13002 Marseille 2ème
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Spoken languages

Spoken languages
  • French

Environment

Environment
  • Town location
  • Subway station < 500 m
  • In the historic centre
  • Close to a public transportation
  • Bus stop < 500 m
Updated on 02 December 2025 at 09:56
by Ville de Marseille
(Offer identifier : 5538533)
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