The mission of the project “Remembering Le Camp des Milles” is to save, maintain and open to the public the buildings of the only internment, transit and deportation camp in France which still bears visible traces from the past and is still in good condition. This site refers to a particularly painful period of History. Therefore, it represents an important element of our French national memory and of European culture.
The project is the result of a long process of remembering the past with the goal of transforming the site into a space for culture and citizen education. A special emphasis will therefore be placed on that aspect.The ambition of this project is to strengthen the visitor’s vigilance and sense of responsibility, especially that of young people, given the permanent threats posed by racism, anti-Semitism, fanaticism and totalitarianism.

IMPORTANT: The funds raised in January 2008, for the investment and the operating budget, are now sufficient to get the construction started at fall 2008 and to allow the opening as early as 2011. New private and public funds still need to be found, in order to complete and develop the educative and cultural dimensions of the project, and to expand its international influence.

CAMP DES MILLES: A MEMORIAL FOR TOMORROW
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    THE PARTNERS IN THE PROJECT

			Association du Wagon-souvenir et du site-mémorial des Milles