A new museum to be built in Ravenoville
Article published in La Manche Libre – 30/01/2025. The new museum is scheduled to open in spring 2028, with work starting in 2026. At the town council meeting on January 23, the Warren J. Kennedy Association presented its plans for a museum dedicated to the largest German prison camp in France. The museum will be […]
A POW museum in Ravenoville in 2028
Article published in La Presse de la Manche – 30/01/2025 UNLOADING. The project was presented a few days ago to the municipal council of Sainte-Mère-Église. The municipal council of the new commune of Sainte-Mère-Eglise met on January 23 in the presence of mayor Alain Holley. Dominique Imber and Maya Duburch unveiled plans to build a […]
Near Sainte-Mère-Eglise. Europe’s first prisoner-of-war museum soon to open
Article published in Tendance Ouest – 24/01/2025. In 2028, Ravenoville will be home to Europe’s first museum dedicated to prisoners of war. Construction is scheduled to start in 2025. 10 years after its first sketch, the Ravenoville museum project is finally taking shape. On Thursday January 23, the Warren J. Kennedy Association, which is spearheading […]
A museum about the largest German prison camp in France will open in Ravenoville in 2028
Article published in Ouest France on 24/01/25
The museum project had been on the drawing board since the revelation to the general public, in 2014, of the existence of a German prison camp run by the American army from 1944 to 1947 in Foucarville (Manche).
CLAP 003 FREEZE FRAME
A museum of captivity: what for? A sensitive subject if ever there was one, on both the German and French sides, we decided to do this “freeze frame” to take a step back and answer the question that many people may be asking. Fabien Théofilakis, head of the scientific committee, summarizes three points of entry: […]
Normandy wants responsible, sustainable, humanist tourism
Article published in La Presse de la Manche – 30/11/2024 340 professionals, including 250 over two days, took part in the 6th edition of the Assises du tourisme normand, held at the Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin on Monday and Tuesday. President of the Normandie Region and Normandie Tourisme, Hervé Morin launched what he […]
The desire to strengthen Franco-German friendship
Article published in La Presse de la Manche on 20/06/24. FOUCARVILLE. Ceremony attended by Fondation Adenauer students TWELVE Franco-German students from the Fondation Adenauer, chaired by Anja Czymmeck, visited D-Day memorial sites. MP Philippe Gosselin was keen to meet these young people from various universities on Friday June 14 in Foucarville, in front of the […]
FOUCARVILLE. Ceremony attended by Fondation Adenauer students
Article published in La Presse de la Manche – June 20, 2024 The desire to strengthen Franco-German friendship TWELVE Franco-German students from the Fondation Adenauer, chaired by Anja Czymmeck, visited D-Day memorial sites.Philippe Gosselin, Member of the French National Assembly, met these young people from various universities on Friday June 14 in Foucarville, in front […]
FOUCARVILLE. Ceremony yesterday afternoon at the German prison camp stele
Article published in La Presse de la Manche – 08/06/2024 “So that the horrors of war no longer strike our countries”. At the end of June 1944, a German prison camp, Continental Central Enclosure n°19, was set up on the Foucarville and Ravenoville territory. It was placed under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Warren John Kennedy. […]
Soon a museum for German prisoners of war
Article published in the Journal des Art – 05/21/24. The W. J. Kennedy Foundation plans to build a museum near the former site of the Foucarville camp, where almost 100,000 German prisoners were held between 1944 and 1946. Paris. Today, 83 hectares of fields blend into the Normandy bocage. But from 1944 to 1946, 60,000 […]
