It is dedicated to the 200.000 Jews, Jehovah's Witnesses, gays, criminals, gypsys and the mentally ill who were deported during WW2.
This is a quote from Antoine St. Exupery that appears there:
This wall of tiny lights represents the 200,000 deportees:
We underwent a thorough search before being admitted to this subterranean monument.
What was the purpose of the search?
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ReplyDeleteI'm curious as well about the search you underwent -- when I visited the memorial the year we met, I just walked in, there were no attendants at all.
ReplyDeleteThey must have had some vandalism?
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ReplyDeleteThey searched my purse and ran a metal detector over us. Nothing really invasive of course. I've had a similar search at the Monde Arab Centre. At La Ste. Chapelle, the Louvre and other sites they run your bags through a machine. It's become pretty standard I think.