Monument to the Deportees Murat

This monument, in the form of a wall with reliefs of chained and subjugated people, commemorates the citizens of the Cantal department who were deported by the German occupiers in 1944 and died as a result. Soil from the Neuengamme concentration camp was buried at the monument, which was unveiled in 1948.

On 12 June 1944, resistance fighters killed German SS officers and French collaborators in Murat after they had been ambushed. In retaliation, 103 male residents were arrested on 24 June and deported to German concentration camps. 75 men from Murat did not survive. Their names are listed on the monument.

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Source

• Text: TracesOfWar
• Photos: Wim Vanneste