Sixty-fourth National Day of Remembrance for the Victims and Heroes of Deportation

© Marilou Tremil

From the early 1950s, former deportees and families of the disappeared expressed the wish to see a date reserved for the memory of the deportation inscribed in the calendar. The law of 14 April 1954 makes the last Sunday in April a day of national celebration. A tribute is first paid to the Shoah Memorial and then to the Memorial of the martyrs of the deportation. The commemoration ends with the rekindling of the flame at the Arc de Triomphe.

In partnership with the Secretary of State for Veterans Affairs.