CERCIL — Holocaust Memorial Museum, Orléans

CERCIL (Centre d'Étude et de Recherche sur les Camps d'Internement dans le Loiret) documents the history of three World War II internment camps in the Loiret department: Pithiviers, Beaune-la-Rolande, and Jargeau. The museum occupies a former municipal kindergarten of approximately 1,000 square metres donated by the City of Orléans. A dedicated memorial space honours the 4,400 children who were transferred from the Vel d'Hiv roundup in Paris to the Loiret camps and subsequently deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where none survived.