Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts

Sunday, May 27, 2012

Division 97 - Memorial to the Colonel Fabien Brigade

Legendary figures in the French Resistance during the Second World War. From left to right: Captain Katz (1911-1944), Lieutenant Colonel Dax (1912-1944), Colonel Fabien (Pierre Georges, 1919-1944), and Captain Lebon (1897-1944)

Saturday, April 28, 2012

Division 84 - Memorial to the Czechs who died fighting for France

Part of a unique collection of large sculptures in divisions 84 and 88, all located along Avenue des Etrangers Morts Pour la France, and includes memorials to Greeks, Armenians, Russian, Poles, Italians, and Belgians who died fighting for France (mort pour la France).

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Division 77 - Memorial to the Deportees to Auschwitz III

Just one of more than a dozen incredibly powerful, striking and dramatic sculptures in divisions 77 and 96 memorializing those, mostly Jews, deported to the various Nazi death camps during the Second World War, most of whom never returned. Powerful, gripping and should be at the top of every traveler's must-see list in the cemetery.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Division 4 - Monument aux morts

Said to be inspired by the death of his wife (1895), this incredible group of sculptures was created by Paul-Albert Bartholome (1848–1928), who is buried just a few meters away, also in division 4.


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