COLLECTION NAME:
SHIMMER
mediaCollectionId
SHU~3~3
SHIMMER
Collection
true
Title:
Village Martyr
title
Village Martyr
Title
false
Caption:
(The martyred village)
caption
(The martyred village)
Caption
false
Creation Date:
1946
creation_date
1946
Creation Date
false
Image Date:
2011
image_date
2011
Image Date
false
Period:
20th century ; 21st century
period
20th century ; 21st century
Period
false
Location:
Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne
location
Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne
Location
false
Country:
FRANCE
country
FRANCE
Country
false
Display Creator:
MARTY, Jean-Louis and Antonio CARRILERO
display_creator
MARTY, Jean-Louis and Antonio CARRILERO
Display Creator
false
Terms:
Death tourism
terms
Death tourism
Terms
false
Image ID:
11-2164
image_id
11-2164
Image ID
false
Description:
Exterior view: side view of the facade to the Centre de la Mémoire - access is via a staircase descending between rusted metal slabs, the exit is via a desending concrete staircase (right). The entire building fills the small valley but its flat roof lessens its visual impact to the site. The vertical metal slabs cut through the building symbolising the violence perpetrated to the village. They have rusted the same colour as much of the metal fragments scattered throughout the village. The only entrance to, and exit from, the village is through the Centre de la Mémoire via a tunnel underneath the main road. On June 10, 2011 642 inhabitants of this village by rounded up and killed by a German Waffen-SS Detachment. Their bodies were burned and all the houses in the village destroyed. In 1946 General de Gaulle declared the site should be preserved as a memorial. A new village was built to the immediate north-west of the village. The local cemetery contains a memorial to the massacre and two glass-topped 'coffins' containing ash and fire-damaged fragments including bone. A crypt under the grass space in front of the cemetery houses displays of fire-damaged relics from the village. In 1999 the Centre de la Mémoire (MARTY & CARRILERO, 1999) was built south-west of the village through which visitors pass to enter the site. This visitor centre provides information on the background to the atrocity and is sited in a hollow to lessen visual impact.
description
Exterior view: side view of the facade to the Centre de la Mémoire - access is via a staircase descending between rusted metal slabs, the exit is via a desending concrete staircase (right). The entire building fills the small valley but its flat roof lessens its visual impact to the site. The vertical metal slabs cut through the building symbolising the violence perpetrated to the village. They have rusted the same colour as much of the metal fragments scattered throughout the village. The only entrance to, and exit from, the village is through the Centre de la Mémoire via a tunnel underneath the main road. On June 10, 2011 642 inhabitants of this village by rounded up and killed by a German Waffen-SS Detachment. Their bodies were burned and all the houses in the village destroyed. In 1946 General de Gaulle declared the site should be preserved as a memorial. A new village was built to the immediate north-west of the village. The local cemetery contains a memorial to the massacre and two glass-topped 'coffins' containing ash and fire-damaged fragments including bone. A crypt under the grass space in front of the cemetery houses displays of fire-damaged relics from the village. In 1999 the Centre de la Mémoire (MARTY & CARRILERO, 1999) was built south-west of the village through which visitors pass to enter the site. This visitor centre provides information on the background to the atrocity and is sited in a hollow to lessen visual impact.
Description
false
Rights:
© Sheffield Hallam University
rights
© Sheffield Hallam University
Rights
false
Permissions:
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
permissions
For educational use only. This image may be used in print or digital materials provided that full acknowledgment is given, expressed as follows: " © < insert details from the 'Rights' field >. Photographed by < insert details from the 'Photographed by' field >."
Permissions
false
Related Information:
Oradour-sur-Glane. For more information see also < http://www.oradour.
> .
related_information
Oradour-sur-Glane. For more information see also < http://www.oradour.org > .
Related Information
false
Photographed by:
Dave Ball
photographed_by
Dave Ball
Photographed by
false
Creator:
MARTY, Jean-Louis
creator
MARTY, Jean-Louis
Creator
false
Creator Role:
Architect.
creator_role
Architect.
Creator Role
false
Culture Gender:
Male.
culture_gender
Male.
Culture Gender
false
Creator:
CARRILERO, Antonio
creator
CARRILERO, Antonio
Creator
false
Creator Role:
Interior designer.
creator_role
Interior designer.
Creator Role
false
Culture Gender:
Male.
culture_gender
Male.
Culture Gender
false
Subject Heading:
Memorials -- France
subject_heading
Memorials -- France
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
subject_heading
World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Monuments -- France
subject_heading
Monuments -- France
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Museums -- France
subject_heading
Museums -- France
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944
subject_heading
Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre, 1944
Subject Heading
false
Subject Heading:
Dark tourism
subject_heading
Dark tourism
Subject Heading
false