Introduction

Mister President of the French republic,
mister Nicolas SARKOZY, inaugurated the Memory House,
on aout Monday, 25 on 2008 .

On-line, the speech of Mr. President, Nicolas Sarkozy, by clicking a photo above.


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Within the german investigation, Ulrich Maas, prosecutor of Dortmund, came in Maillé on July 15th, 16th and 17th, 2008.
He put down a wreath at feet of the Memorial in memory 124 victims.

The prosecutor and the mayor

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carrying out works of the Memory House

The Memory House of Maillé is open :
from Wednesday to Saturday : from 10.30 am to 6 pm
On Sunday and Monday : from 2 pm to 6 pm

Certified Tourism and Handicap for the driving, visual, hearing and mental handicaps

Rates (2010):
5.40 euros per person
2.70 euros for students and teachers
free for children under the age of 12
for groups, please, contact us.

to contact the Memory House at Maillé :
address : Maison du Souvenir
1 rue de la Paix
37800 Maillé
France

Agrandir le plan tel : +33 (0)2 47 65 24 89
fax : +33 (0)2 47 65 21 89
e-mail : Memory House



The Memory House welcomes those who wish to learn about the history of the massacre, ans shows Maillé, an ordinary village in France, before and during war : the drama, testimonies, renconstruction and memory.
Informations about international institutions and interference duty is expanded.

The exhibition is especially made up of archive documents and pictures, but also contains objects found into ruins or kept by families, and audio and video records.

This memory place is not a museum: it is a living place with visits set up by the association, “For the Memory of Maillé”, constitued by rescued people. They actively search for documents beside inhabitants and diffuse information beside visitors.
Specific animations (exhibitions, conferences…) will regularly be proposed in Maillé, such as other places, in France and foreign, on topics dealing with the Memory House.
A network with other memory places in France and Foreign will be an important element, suitable for its dynamism.



64 years after the drama, this new structure has 3 main goals :
- To be a memory area relating the drama of Maillé.
- To be a teaching area on various topics, such as civilian population slaughter, yesterday, today and tomorow, as united thematics (history, sociology, rebuilding, international Institutions parts, Army part…)
- To be a research area on these same topics.

towards the history of Maillé