Auch Resistance and Deportation Museum
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This museum, inaugurated on 5 October 1975, remembers the fight of the Resistance movement in the Department of Gers.
Founded in 1954 by Louis Villanova, Marcel Daguzan and Louis Leroy, the Auch Museum of Resistance and Deportation, in Gers, was opened on 5 October 1975 by Andre Bord, the then Veterans Minister. The exhibits feature objects, documents and other items from the period owned by resistance veterans.
This remembrance space preserves these important relics for generations to come and keeps the memory of the Resistance operations in Gers alive.
One of the objectives of the museum association founded in 1994 is to expand the collections over time. The exhibition rooms lead visitors through the history of the Resistance from its first steps to the region's liberation. One room is also dedicated to the Deportation, displaying objects, documents, illustrations and a memorial to the deportees from Gers.
Auch Resistance and Deportation Museum
rue Pagodoutés
32000 Auch
Tel: +33 (0)5 62 05 74 79
+33 (0)5 62 61 21 85
Free admission
Enquire for opening days and times.
Gers Resistance and Deportation Museum Association : Auch Town Hall
Departmental office for the national bureau of war veterans and victims of war
29, chemin de Baron - 32000 Auch
Tel: +33 (0)5 62 05 01 32 - Fax: +33 (0)5 62 05 51 05
Email: dir.sd32@onacvg.fr
Practical information
Pagodéoutés 32000
Auch
05 62 05 74 79