La Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation
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The Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation was founded on 17 October 1990 on the initiative of former French prime minister Michel Rocard
and the former minister of the Interior. The head office of the Fondation “pour la Mémoire de la Déportation” is in Paris
.
The foundation acts as an organization for a range of associations and corporations which are dealing with deportation
and detention
during Nazism
and the Vichy regime between 1940 and 1944 in France
. As a national institution, the ruling competence is in the hands of an 18-member council with representatives of the ministry of the Interior, the ministry of Defense, the Minister of National Education
the ministry of Finance, and others. As of March 2009 the head of the foundation is M. Yves Lescure.
The work of the foundation and of its attributable associations and corporations are focusing on activities, alliances and initiatives of former internees as well as the support of their families and the preservation of knowledge over internment and deportation for coming generations.
In its program the organization pays attention to several principles which together build a base for more than ten years of successful documentation and research work:
By intermediation of knowledge and awareness training for a broader spectrum of society, the foundation tries on the one hand to keep the remembrance for internment and deportation, on the other it is a preventive contribution to avoid deportation and internment.
Michel Rocard
Michel Rocard is a French politician, member of the Socialist Party . He served as Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 1991, during which he created the Revenu minimum d'insertion , a social minimum welfare program for indigents, and led the Matignon Accords regarding the status...
and the former minister of the Interior. The head office of the Fondation “pour la Mémoire de la Déportation” is in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
.
The foundation acts as an organization for a range of associations and corporations which are dealing with deportation
Deportation
Deportation means the expulsion of a person or group of people from a place or country. Today it often refers to the expulsion of foreign nationals whereas the expulsion of nationals is called banishment, exile, or penal transportation...
and detention
Detention (imprisonment)
Detention is the process when a state, government or citizen lawfully holds a person by removing their freedom of liberty at that time. This can be due to criminal charges being raised against the individual as part of a prosecution or to protect a person or property...
during Nazism
Nazism
Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...
and the Vichy regime between 1940 and 1944 in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. As a national institution, the ruling competence is in the hands of an 18-member council with representatives of the ministry of the Interior, the ministry of Defense, the Minister of National Education
Minister of National Education (France)
The Ministry of National Education, Youth, and Sport , or simply "Minister of National Education," as the title has changed no small number of times in the course of the Fifth Republic) is the French government cabinet member charged with running France's public educational system and with the...
the ministry of Finance, and others. As of March 2009 the head of the foundation is M. Yves Lescure.
The work of the foundation and of its attributable associations and corporations are focusing on activities, alliances and initiatives of former internees as well as the support of their families and the preservation of knowledge over internment and deportation for coming generations.
In its program the organization pays attention to several principles which together build a base for more than ten years of successful documentation and research work:
- pérenniser (refuse): To hold up the reminiscence of the deportation of an innumerable number of people and their lives.
- défendre (defend): To secure the interests and the honor of former concentration camp prisoners.
- s’opposer (resist): To resist against every violation of freedom, dignity and the rights of people who suffer from totalitarian systems.
- contribuer (contribute): To contribute tasks for the maintenance of all documentation material to avoid a return of Nazism.
- participer (participate): To contribute the education of coming generations, to provide them with knowledge and respect over the horrible historical incidents.
- approfondir (deepen): To deepen the international publicity of the organisation, the knowledge of concentration camp prisoners and resistance in World War II out of the available information and documents of the “Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation”.
- continuer (continue): To carry out scientific research to learn more about the pathology of Nazism.
By intermediation of knowledge and awareness training for a broader spectrum of society, the foundation tries on the one hand to keep the remembrance for internment and deportation, on the other it is a preventive contribution to avoid deportation and internment.
See also
- Human rights in FranceHuman rights in FranceThe preamble of the Constitution of the French Fifth Republic, founded in 1958, recalls the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. France has also ratified the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, as well as the European Convention on Human Rights 1960 and the Charter of...
- Vichy FranceVichy FranceVichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
- Historical revisionism (negationism)Historical revisionism (negationism)Historical revisionism is either the legitimate scholastic re-examination of existing knowledge about a historical event, or the illegitimate distortion of the historical record such that certain events appear in a more or less favourable light. For the former, i.e. the academic pursuit, see...
- International concentration camp committeesInternational concentration camp committeesInternational concentration camp committees are organizations composed of former inmates of the various Nazi concentration camps, formed at various times, primarily after the Second World War...
- Fédération nationale des déportés et internés résistants et patriotesFédération nationale des déportés et internés résistants et patriotesThe Fédération nationale des déportés et internés résistants et patriotes is an organization founded by Marcel Paul and Henri Manhès in October 1945, five months after the defeat of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II...