Last memories 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 proceeded to the internment of thousands of men then women and children in the camps of Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande located in the Loiret. Some of these interns made in the workshops of the camps, objects, gifts from a father to his children, a husband to his wife, a brother, a fiancé.

The exhibition presents a hundred of these objects. Carefully preserved by their recipients, where possible, these objects are sometimes the last link with a deportee who has never returned.