Memorial Plaques at Oradour-sur-Glane
The photo above shows the black marble
plaques that are mounted on the wall behind the tall column of
the Ossuary in the cemetery at Oradour-sur-Glane. On these 8
plaques are the names and ages of the 642 victims of the massacre
on 10 June 1944 in Oradour-sur-Glane.
Behind the tall column in the photo above
you can see individual memorial plaques, mounted on a frame,
that have been placed there over the years by veterans' groups,
trade unions, widows' associations, cities, political parties
and members of the French resistance movement.
The photo below shows the individual
plaques which are between the black marble plaques on each side
of the Ossuary. In the foreground on the left side, you can see
some of the plaques placed on the ground by the families of the
unidentified victims who have no grave in the cemetery. More
individual plaques are on the ground against the wall in the
background.
The photo below shows placques that have
been placed there by veterans of the French resistance in honor
of the victims, although none of the people in the village of
Oradour-sur-Glane were involved with the Resistance movement
in any way. In the center is a black plaque placed there by the
International Committee at the Buchenwald concentration camp,
which was a Communist organization formed by the inmates. Dora
was a sub-camp of the Buchenwald camp. A large number of captured
French resistance fighters were sent to Buchenwald where they
were forced to work in factories for the German war effort.
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