Tag: Second World War
“For me, October 7 is also the Shoah”
Israel commemorates this Monday, May 6 and since this Sunday, Yom HaShoah, and pays tribute to the victims of the Holocaust. Six million Jews were killed during World War II…
a show project angers the descendants of the Kieffer commando
For four years, a historical spectacle project must have seen the light of day in Normandy which reproduces the battles of the summer of 1944. For the moment, no stone…
Emmanuel Macron in the Vercors to commemorate the resistance fighters of the Second World War
Ten days after the Glières plateau, the President of the Republic, Emmanuel Macron, continues this Tuesday, April 16, the commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the landing in Drôme, in…
Mélanie Berger-Volle, 102 years old, former resistance fighter, bearer of the Olympic flame
Chosen by the Loire department, in central France, to carry the flame for the Olympic Games on June 22, this shadowy woman will be, for the duration of a stage,…
Emmanuel Macron launches his “memorial journey” for the 80th anniversary of the Liberation
The French president paid tribute this Sunday to the resistance fighters who gathered on the Glières plateau, in the Alps, from January to March 1944 to receive airdrops of weapons.…
the Manouchian couple enters the Pantheon during a ceremony in honor of the resistance fighters
For the first time, foreign resistance fighters enter the Pantheon. Eighty years after being shot by Nazi Germany, Missak Manouchian enters the temple of the nation’s greats, accompanied by his…
Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, two foreign resistance fighters enter the Pantheon
The stateless poet Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée as well as 23 of his comrades-in-arms enter the Panthéon in Paris this Wednesday, February 21. 80 years after their death,…
Missak and Mélinée Manouchian at the Pantheon: they are “freedom fighters who are honored”
Missak Manouchian and his wife Mélinée enter the Pantheon on February 21, 2024. A ceremony which takes place 80 years after the execution of Missak and that of his fellow…
Missak and Mélinée Manouchian, symbols of foreign resistance in France
On February 21, 2023, the ashes of Missak and Mélinée Manouchian enter the Pantheon. The one who was the operational leader of the foreign communist resistance in France was shot…
Tribute to Joseph Bialot who would have been 100 years old in 2023
At the time of the centenary of the birth of Joseph Bialot, tribute to the writer, born in 1923 in Warsaw, settled in France in 1930, survivor of the Auschwitz…