Alsace-Moselle Memorial
Alsace-Moselle Memorial
Schirmeck
Although there are few traces of the internment camp, which was completely dismantled after the liberation between 1954 and 1960, the Rue du Souvenir still houses the building of the camp's "Kommandantur" built in 1943. Now private property, a plaque affixed to the façade recalls the page of history that was written here. Installation of a memorial stele on the site of the former "Schirmeck-Vorbrück" security camp in 2019. Unique in the concentration camp system, the Schirmeck-Vorbrück camp was intended to re-educate the refractory through terrorization, repression, and even disappearance...
Also worth seeing: the gate of the old town hall, current Schirmeck media library, original entrance gate to the camp, Memory to History trail. See the map
Also worth seeing: the gate of the old town hall, current Schirmeck media library, original entrance gate to the camp, Memory to History trail. See the map
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