Round table as part of the event “1944-2024, 80 years of the Liberation of the City of Marseille”.
Round table on combatant memories and the participation of colonial soldiers, the contingents of the African army in the Liberation of Marseille and Provence.
In the presence of:
– Belkacem Recham, historian and author of “Algerian Muslims in the French army (1919-1945)” published by Éditions l’harmattan, 1996
– Grégoire George-Picot, historian, curator of the exhibition “Our Liberators” produced by the Amicale du Groupe Marat
– Kamel Mouellef, curator of the exhibition “Forgotten Resistants” and co-author of the comic strip “Turcos”.
– Jérôme Pedarros, director of ONACVG
Round table preceded by the screening of a film Memoirs of Forgotten Soldiers by Éric Blanchot
[Documentaire – France – 2005 – 28 mn]
In 1857, Emperor Napoleon III signed the decree creating the Senegalese riflemen. In 2007, France paid them a solemn tribute. Between these two dates, hundreds of thousands of African soldiers fought under the folds of the tricolor flag. From the African continent to the trenches of Verdun in 1916, from the Ardennes forests in 1940 to the sands of Bir Hakeim in 1942, from the Vosges maquis to the liberation of France in 1945, from Indochina to Algeria, more than A century of glory, blood, self-sacrifice and brotherhood of arms.
Evening co-programmed with the Ancrages association as part of History Tuesdays, bimonthly meetings in the museum auditorium.
As part of the event “1944 – 2024, 80 years of the Liberation of the City of Marseille”, in partnership with the Memoirs Service of the City of Marseille.
All audiences
Duration: 2h30
Without reservation
Free entry to the museum auditorium subject to availability
