This tall column contains the ashes of the unidentified victims of the massacre in Oradour-sur-Glane on 10 June 1944.
The monument was financed by one of the survivors who lost his entire family in the massacre; it was paid for by donations.
Originally, the remains were to be placed in a crypt that was built by the State, but the families of the survivors rejected this plan after a trial in 1953 in which the convicted perpetrators were granted amnesty....

Sixty-nine years ago today....