Established in 1956 as the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr, it has evolved to become a memorial to the Holocaust and an important documentation center. The actual memorial to the victims of the Shoah (a Hebrew word meaning 'catastrophe') stands at the entrance where there is a wall inscribed with 76,000 names of children, women and men deported from France to Nazi extermination camps.
This was instructive about the role of the Vichy government during the war, and the relatively recent acknowledgement by the French government of its complicity.
The Wall of the Righteous on the outside of the memorial recognizes those who risked their lives to actively help the Jews during the Holocaust in France.
As you travel throughout France there are plaques like this - this is the first we saw that specifically called out the role of the Vichy government.
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