Champ des Martyrs

A place to remember and pass on. It was on this spot, a former rubbish dump, that the bodies of the 99 men hanged in Tulle on June 9, 1944 were buried. Four months after the tragedy, the bodies of those hanged were returned to their families, but the Cueille site had already been consigned to history.
The survivors of the tragedy wanted to materialize their desire to make the site a sacred space. In 1950, three steles were inaugurated, making the site part of our country?s martyrology. One of them bears the names of the 101 deportees who never returned from the death camps. 17 lecterns, placed along the hedge overlooking the Corrèze river, record the events leading up to the tragedy of June 9, 1944.