The Memorial to the dead in Oradour-sur-Glane cemetery: 1
The names of all the 642 victims are inscribed on the 10 black tablets on the rear wall. There is a separate smaller tablet visible on the extreme right (half in shadow) that duplicates the names of the 44 people who came from Charly near Metz in the province of Lorraine (now re-named Charly-Oradour): see also picture 2.
Around the base of the stele and the enclosing walls are family memorial tablets. The two coffin shaped objects either side of the stele are glass roofed ossuaries. The main cemetery is behind the photographer and most of the identified victims are interred there in family plots.
© Michael Williams: revised November 2006