Picpus: Walled Garden of Memory
- Date
1999 (Creation date: 2014)
- Main contributors
Janine Spencer; Harlan Wallach; Gerald Mead
- Summary
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The film is a study of the historical Picpus Cemetery, the site of a mass grave of some 1300 victims of the Reign of Terror in 1794, and the burial site of General Lafayette. It also investigates the collusion of Vichy France with Nazi Germany; the Rothschild Hospital, which shares a common wall with Picpus, was transformed into a prison hospital for French and European Jews, incarcerated there before their eventual deportation to death camps.
- Publisher
Northwestern University
- Genre
Documentary
- Subjects
French Revolution; Reign of Terror; German Occupation of France
- Location
Paris, France
- Collection
MMLC Produced Content
- Unit
WCAS Multimedia Learning Center
Access Restrictions
This item is accessible by: the public.