It contains 1, stamps, posters, photographs, objects and models to illustrate an episode in French history in the light of international developments. It shows Resistants and their relentless efforts to free France and preserve human dignity. This collection was originally compiled by a group of deportees as an itinerant exhibition.
Today, however, it is on show in a building that used to belong to a school. You will find information about events in the area's history and about the stories of the people who shaped it. The emprisonment emprisonnement collection tells the story of the 1. These soldiers were victims of the June "debacle" and many of them spent five years behind barded-wire fences in the stalags. This collection casts light on internment conditions though testimonials by prisoners who survived Stalag Rawa-Ruska, the easternmost camp it was in Ukraine.
That was where Hitler's Germany sent the recidivist escapees and saboteurs it could not defang and therefore wanted to eradicate.
It also illustrated daily life in those camps. Stories of deportees' tribulations and of escapees' quests to cross the Pyrenees and join the Allied forces to take part in France's liberation unfurl concurrently. This museum also tells the stories of this region's Resistance. The museum can arrange meetings with WWII eyewitnesses. It also caters to school groups including eyewitness meetings by appointment. An audiovisual room showing video footage of the deportation, resistance and landings, and a WWII library on-site, by appointment.
Current projects Gathering eyewitness testimonials. He was given the task of secretly mobilising an army in the High and Low Pyrenees, the Landes and the Gers regions. The Free Corps was very actively involved in the liberation of the country. At the end of , the southern zone was 30, strong and the northern zone 15, After the Allied landings in Provence on 15 August , battles for liberation succeeded guerrilla warfare.
