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France's Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp Des Milles

France's Memorial Landscape: Views from Camp Des Milles

Hardcover

Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, Book 91

French HistoryGeneral EducationHolocaust

ISBN10: 1837644780
ISBN13: 9781837644780
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: Oct 1 2023
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

During August 1942 several women jumped to their deaths from a second story window at the tile factory in the small town of Milles near Aix-en-Provence. Between 1939 and 1942 the factory assumed various roles as internment camp, transit camp and ultimately deportation camp. This book is about the view from the 'suicide window' as it is presented within the Camp des Milles memorial museum which opened in 2012. It explores how this view might help us to understand and imagine the world of internment and deportation camps operating in France during the Second World War and their memorial today. The book uses the views framed by the window to think critically about the museography of the memorial within the wider context of France's relatively late acknowledgment of its role in the persecution of the Jews during the Second World War.

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