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MUSEUM OF MEMORY - CAMP DU RÉCÉBÉDOU

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Allée du Grand-Chêne, 31120Portet-Sur-Garonne, France
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2024
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2024

Museum with a permanent collection that traces the history of the camp through a collection of documents, period photos...

Inaugurated in 2003 by Elie Wiesel, this museum reminds us that this former housing estate built in 1939 for the working families of the Poudreries nationales de Toulouse served as a reception and accommodation center for Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War from 1940 on. Following the same process as other camps in France, it then welcomed people from Belgium and Northern France fleeing Nazism as well as foreign Jews after the vote of the anti-Jewish law of October 4, 1940. From 1941, the camp changed its use to become a hospital camp where Spanish republicans who had been mutilated in the war were housed, as well as sick or elderly German Jews from the Gurs camp. But the place looked more like a hospital...

In 1942, the camp was included in the plan for the Final Solution. The archbishop of Toulouse protested against this situation: the camp closed in September 1942. The museum's permanent collection retraces this history through a collection of documents, period photos and reconstructions that allow us to understand the daily life of the interned people. In the town cemetery, there is a square where the graves of those who died in the camp are kept, as well as a memorial to the victims of Nazism. A stele near the Portet-Saint-Simon train station reminds us that it was the departure point to the death camps for the internees of Récébédou and Noé (30 km away).

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Visited in november 2023
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Visited in september 2023
Très instructif. Belle maquette du camp du Recebedou, planches explicatives mémorielles très détaillées, récits de grande qualité, Mobilier d'époque qui nous met en situation. Belle bibliothèque. Très bon accueil, Personnel agréable et compétent. Entrée GRATUITE.
Visited in march 2023
L’histoire du camp du réceb est super intéressante et importante
Visited in december 2022
Nous sommes venus visiter ce musée cette semaine et avons passé un très agréable moment.
Le responsable a pris le temps de nous raconter l'histoire du camp du Récébédou et de nous présenter en détails l'exposition temporaire consacrée à une correspondance durant la Première Guerre Mondiale.
Tres bien organisé, nous conseillons vivement ce petit musée que nous avons eu le plaisir de découvrir et nous reviendrons certainement pour la prochaine exposition.
Visited in november 2022
Impresionante es el estado de conservación de este edificio donde se guardan evidencias de cómo vivían los prisioneros, muchos de ellos españoles republicanos que habían escapado de la dictadura de Franco. Objetos diversos, camas, etcétera.

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