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 – 01/23/2025 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 […]
