Lest we forget, Ellen Turner Halls takes us on a visit of the exhibition at Rivesaltes’ Camp Joffre
French writer and poet describes the massacre as unspeakable, its wounds so deep that we dare not mention them, in this desolate poem, ‘Oradour’.
Thanks to this exhibition, the nomads’ story is finally being told.
We will be judged as a society on how well we treat them.
The war is nearing it’s end. The Germans occupying France are on edge and expecting the Allied Invasion at any time.
Robert Hébras Lanois, the last survivor of the horrendous massacre of the village of Oradour, has died at the age of 97. (February 2023).
Several infamous lady poisoners were chained up in the ’prison des dames’ of the chateau Fort Liberia.
Walking the GR10 Trail in the French Pyrenees with Patrick O’Connell
Franco believed Sardane dancers were passing on coded messages with their feet!
History tells the facts – Art tells the story
When the deportations began in August 1942, Friedel smuggled Jewish children out of the camp to children’s homes