Pacific Manuscripts Bureau

CollectionPHOTO 149 - Monuments related to war and the Free French movement in the Pacific
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Item036 - Coffins used to displace the bodies of those executed by the Germans at the Mont Valérien, on display at the fort’s chapel, Suresnes
Item037 - Remains of the execution posts used by the Germans during the war, on display at the fort’s chapel, Suresnes
Item038 - Graffiti made by a resistant sentenced to death locked in the fort’s chapel on its wall before facing the firing squad, Suresnes
Item039 - Clearing in the wood surrounding the Mont Valérien’s fortress in which the executions of resistants and hostages by the Germans took place during the occupation. The victims were placed on the right side of the picture and the German firing squad was on the left, Suresnes
Item040 - Inside of the Memorial to Fighting France’s crypt (Suresnes), where 16 bodies (at the time of the picture) were buried, representing a broad spectrum of those engaged in French resistance. Vault number 9 was reserved for the last Companion of Liberation to die and is now occupied by Hubert Germain, who died on 12 October 2021
Item041 - In Bagneux, grave of Maadi Gobrait, a Tahitian nurse who enlisted in the Free French Forces and ended the war as a second lieutenant, at the Cimetière Parisien de Bagneux, division 40.
Item042 - Pierre Brossolette’s tomb in the Panthéon, Paris
Item043 - Jean Zay’s tomb in the Panthéon, Paris
Item044 - Germaine Tillion’s cenotaph in the Panthéon, Paris
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Inside of the Memorial to Fighting France’s crypt (Suresnes), where 16 bodies (at the time of the picture) were buried, representing a broad spectrum of those engaged in French resistance. Vault number 9 was reserved for the last Companion of Liberation to die and is now occupied by Hubert Germain, who died on 12 October 2021