Last souvenirs Objects from the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande, 1941-1942

Between May 1941 and July 1942, at the initiative of the Nazi authorities in the occupied zone, the Vichy regime interned thousands of men and then women and children in the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande located in Loiret. Some of these internees made in the camps' workshops, objects, gifts from a father to his children, from a husband to his wife, from a brother, from a fiancé.

The exhibition presents a hundred of these objects. Preciously kept by their recipients, when possible, these objects are sometimes the last link with a deportee who never returned.