Genocide and mass violence

The room dedicated to the genocide of Jews and mass violence reveals the climate of unprecedented violence in which mass killings and innumerable atrocities were committed both in Europe and Asia-Pacific between 1937 and 1945: mobile killing units, death camps, the deportation of Gypsies, and violence committed by the Japanese army.

The Holocaust

Portraits of victims

The extermination of 6 million Jews between 1939 and 1945, including 1.4 million children, was undoubtedly the greatest tragedy of the 20th century in Europe. It continues to raise questions for the societies we live in today. Since 2008, the Holocaust has been the central focus of the Caen Memorial Museum permanent exhibition. The section dedicated to the Genocide is divided into three main parts:

  • The first examines the warning signs of extermination: gradual radicalization and mass conditioning.
  • The second part is dedicated to the mobile killings carried out as early as the invasion of Poland, then extended to the defeated USSR, from June 1941.
  • Lastly, the third part explains the system of extermination in the six killing centers situated in Poland.
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