Published on 04/09/2024
This year, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of Le Havre, on Thursday 12 September, the group thus contributed to the place of Commando-Kieffer revealing the secrets of an unjustly forgotten operation: that of seventeen young people from Le Havre engaged, with 160 other French people, in this commando attached to the British army and which was the first to land on the Normandy coast on 6 June. “We convinced the City to have a fresco painted on the water tower in the square, which will contribute both to the duty of remembrance and to the beautification of the site”testify Serge Buquet and Jacques Fortin, who meet on this occasion or during their events at the Fabrique d’Aplemont.
A neighborhood where history reigns
The Aplemont-Frileuse sector is full of historical treasures that bear witness to the long history of Le Havre, such as the remains of the feudal mound, contemporary with the Graville Abbey, whose location can still be guessed. Or the garden city, built in the 1930s, whose 26 houses speak to us of an ideal vision of workers’ housing. Who knows, moreover, that the district is home to the only temporary housing surviving from the post-war period?
A dozen passionate residents are taking hold of memory and heritage in order to preserve and, above all, share the history of an area that was razed to the ground by more than 80% in September 1944. Since 2018, the Mémoires d’Aplemont et de Frileuse group has been deepening its research and organizing exhibitions, conferences and discovery walks that talk about a visible and invisible past. The commitment of these volunteers sometimes helps to shed light on little-known events.
Practical information
Inauguration of the fresco at Place du Commando-Kieffer on Saturday September 21 at 3:30 p.m.
