80 years ago, on January 27, 1945, the progression of the Allied armies gradually put an end to what was the Nazi concentrationary universe. This April 27, 2025 was the national day of the memory of the victims and the heroes of the deportation. A ceremony was organized in front of the Lavelanetian dead monument. Alongside the mayor, Marc Sanchez, some elected officials from the Pays d’Olmes, the municipal council of children, representatives of associations of veterans and the gendarmerie. Among the standard bearers, we noticed the young Kyllian of the defense class of the Victor Hugo college. His comrade, Madina, read the message of deportees’ associations. “This human drama must remind us of how essential it is to defend and preserve the universal values of dignity, freedom, fraternity because the law of the strongest risk, once again, to upset the world balances,” she read. The deputy mayor, Franck Farez, transmitted the message from the Ministry of the Armed Forces. “It is not only a question of remembering. It is a question of transmitting. To tell young people that these crimes were made possible by silence, indifference, habit. And that they can be reborn, as soon as we stop being vigilant,” he said. Several wreaths were then deposited before a Marseille moving who closed this ceremony.
