THE INTERNMENT OF NOMADS, A FRENCH HISTORY (1940-1946) New in 2026-2027

From October 1940 to May 1946, nearly 6,700 people, mostly French, including a large number of children, were interned in more than thirty camps for nomads located throughout the metropolitan territory. With this exhibition, the Shoah Memorial offers a comprehensive perspective on the policy conducted by France between 1939 and 1946 towards those whom the French law designated under the term Nomads. If it was different from the German policy conducted in the rest of Europe towards the Zigeuner (Gypsies), this policy constitutes one of the most dramatic episodes of the Second World War on our territory, a terrible page whose memory has long been overshadowed.

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Contact: assistante.expositions.itinerantes@memorialdelashoah.org