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).
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 […]
Museum on German prisoners: “The captive of war has no place in national narratives”.
Article published in La Croix – 05/23/2023 To mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, a museum on German prisoners of war has been announced for 2027, on the former site of the Foucarville camp in the Manche département. Historian Fabien Théofilakis, a specialist in wartime captivity and member of the scientific committee, explains the project […]
Utah Beach museum dedicates exhibition to German prisoners
France 3 Normandie on 13/06/2020. In Sainte-Marie-du-Mont, the Utah Beach Landing Museum presents a new exhibition entitled “A German prison camp at Foucarville”, retracing the daily life of these captive soldiers in Normandy. 73 years ago, the largest German prison camp in Normandy came into being in the Manche communes of Foucarville and Ravenoville. Initially […]
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Extract from France 3 Normandie news – 22/10/2016
A German prison camp in Foucarville
Article published in Ouest France – 19/05/2016. This small commune has brought a little-known episode of history out of the shadows: the existence of a German prison camp through which 100,000 men passed. Foucarville, a small commune of 125 inhabitants, became part of Sainte-Mère-Église on January 1. A commune that has just unearthed a little-known […]