This Wednesday, December 18, the exhibition on the National Council of the Resistance will have its last day at the Museum of Memory in Portet-sur-Garonne. Designed and produced by the Fondation de la Résistance on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation of France, with the help of numerous partners including museums, archive centers, libraries, foundations and families of resistance fighters , this exhibition is dedicated to the founding history of the French Resistance. It addresses the context of the Occupation, the beginnings of the Resistance in France and specifies the conditions of the meeting of May 27, 1943 which founded the National Council of the Resistance. The exhibition recounts the successive stages of the development of this unification movement as well as the role played by its various actors, notably Jean Moulin. From the defeat of France in 1940 and its consequences, to the heavy sacrifices made by the resistance to liberate France in 1944; without forgetting the complex missions of Jean Moulin to unify the Resistance in the South Zone, after having gone to London, then to create the CNR, with the assistance of other great resistance fighters, thus marking the unification of the internal Resistance but also the one with the External Resistance. We also learn that the CNR will continue after the arrest of Jean Moulin, and that the program adopted by its members on March 15, 1944 will be essential for the liberation. The town of Portet obtained the national label “Mission Libération” for its mobilization in the dissemination of historical knowledge, the promotion of local heritage, tributes to the missing, and the transmission of the memory of the Liberation.
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