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7 February 2026 at 10:30 a.m. at the Montluc National Memorial On the first Saturday of every month from February to August, the Memorial invites visitors to discover the story of Simone Lagrange (née Kadosche), who was arrested with her parents on 6 June 1944 and interned at Montluc prison. She was only 13 years old when she was deported with her mother to Auschwitz-Birkenau on Convoy 76. A ...
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Until 20 December 2025 at the Montluc National Memorial Prison This exhibition is organised by the Association of Montluc Survivors, which was founded in the autumn of 1944 with the aim of identifying Montluc internees immediately after the war and providing them with assistance. Following the closure of Montluc Prison in 2009, the association committed to creating the Memorial. This year, ...
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Until 31 January 2026 at the Montluc Prison National Memorial Major restoration work has been carried out at the Memorial, including the consolidation of all the surrounding walls, the development of the walkway, and the renovation of the former workshop building. The progress of this work has been documented by photographer Bertrand Pichène, who is sharing his work with the public to mark ...
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5 April 2025 at Montluc prison This tour has been offered every first Saturday of the month since January and will run until May. 80 years after the liberation of the camps, participants will be able to rediscover the lives of those interned in Montluc prison and later deported. 5 avril 2025 : Visite guidée thématique « 1945 : libération des camps et retour des déportés » – Mémorial ...
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1 February 2025, 10.30am at the Montluc National Prison Memorial On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the camps, the Memorial is proposing itineraries of men and women interned in Montluc prison who were subsequently deported. These personal journeys give visitors a better understanding of the Nazi regime’s desire to dehumanise, the terrible suffering endured and ...
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6 June 2024 This play by Robert Antelme, adapted and performed by Anne Coutureau and directed by Patrice Le Cadre, shares the author’s account of his captivity in Germany in 1945. A reflection on the Nazi will to exterminate, the struggle of the deportees and human resilience, hoping for a better future, perhaps not for themselves, but at least for their descendants, within the great ...
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Until 29 June 2024 at the Montluc Memorial This exhibition features works by visual artist Nicolas Daubanes. One of them was created for the occasion, following an immersion in the Montluc Memorial, based on a study of the archives and discussions with visitors to the site. The aim is to emphasise transmission, by allowing art and memory to interact freely. This project is all the more ...
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24 June 2023 With the gradual disappearance of the last survivors of the Shoah, these testimonies are all the more precious. Even more so in this period of rising populism. Claude Bloch, now 94 years old, is the last survivor of Auschwitz in Lyon. Arrested in June 1944, he was interned in Montluc before being deported. He still speaks regularly in schools. ...
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The Jewish community in the historical capital of the Gauls and, for historians, capital of the French Resistance, has now regained an undeniable dynamism. There are many notable sites surrounding the , built in 1864, as well as some excellent restaurants. All in all, they make Lyon a very pleasant stop. As in many French cities, the presence of Jews there probably dates back to the Roman ...
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