Memorial to the Martyrs of deportation
Paris: Reseau de Souvenir [Remembrance Network], printed by Imprimerie Tournon & Cie, c1965. Unknown, presumed first edition, first printing. Wraps. Format is approximately 6 inches by 8 inches. 16 pages, including covers. Illustrated cover. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. Most of the text is in English. This brochure was produced by the remembrance network thanks to the benevolent support of the Minister of Veterans Affairs and the General Tourism Commission. The memorial was designed by G. H. Pingusson. The memorial consists of three distinct components: The phase of silence [a walk through a garden enables the visitor to leave behind the noise and traffic of the city], the plunge into the unfamiliar [two steep and narrow flights of stone steps parallel to the arms of the Seine create a breach with the world of the living. Step by step, the familiar landscape of Paris is blotted out from sight], and the third phase--a Presence, in the tomb, at the entrance to a long gallery, the walls are covered with 200,000 facets sparkling with as many flames. There rests an unknown deported. Fat in the distance a single light reminds those who stand there that lost in thought that no sacrifice on earth is in vain. More