| "I wish that downtown this anchors itself never has the memory of the atrocious one, of inhuman lived by a generation, that persists the memory of the families of Marseilles, men, women, children, raflés in the street, their house, their hearth, exterminated without reason, victims of the only racism, these inhabitants taken in the bow net of their district, oldest of Marseilles, evacuated, shaved, of those which resisted and these million human beings, beyond Marseilles, in whole Europe, condemned to die by racial extermination. Memory of all those so many which died, respect of the some survivors. Testimony of what was, a truth to be perpetuated because we know the brittleness of certain consciences, so that that can occur never again. I proposed the name of " memorial of the camps of death ", although the term of deportation became devoted. But I think of the future generations which follow us and will follow us and for which the meaning of the words could erase the direction of reality. Because the deportation is the exile forced out of the territory of fastener, towards another more or less remote, but by granting the life and the possibility of a survival, even if the conditions morals and material are precarious or extreme. The Nazism, " imported to him " of more or less far a whole population under the terms of racial criteria, in specialized camps in order to more easily and massively to exterminate it. Died programmed and scientifically organized. This memorial, with the foot of Strong Midsummer's Day, is in a blockhouse Nazi, symbol place of an overcome domination." Robert P. VIGOUROUX
(Mayor of Marseilles) |
