Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation
Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation, War memorial in France
The Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation honors the memory of the French victims of the Holocaust.
Conceived by Georges-Henri Pingusson and inaugurated by Charles de Gaulle in 1962.
It serves as a place of national remembrance in the 4th arrondissement of Paris.
The monument commemorates the French Resistance and victims of Nazi concentration camps.
A crypt with a single lit flame symbolizes eternal remembrance beneath the Ile de la Cité.
Location: 4th arrondissement of Paris
Inception: 1962
Architect: Georges-Henri Pingusson
Accessibility: Wheelchair inaccessible
Address: Square de l'Ile-de-France, 7 Quai de l'Archevêché, 75004 Paris
Sources: Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap