General note: minor corrections, such as to spelling, will
not normally be shown here.
10 March 2025 ... This website has been
open for 25 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
07 January 2025 ... Minor updates to the
80th Anniversary commemoration at Oradour.
01 January 2025 ... In a world
seemingly full of conflict, I offer you my wishes for some peace and stability,
so that we may not see another Oradour in our lifetime. Minor update to the
Timeline.
01 August 2024 ...
The 80th Anniversary details
16 July 2024 ... New photos of
the Doctor's car aging.
09 July 2024 ...
How to get there and places to stay updated to show that the Aire for
motorcaravans is no longer free to stay overnights.
26 June 2024 ... Better quality photograph showing the memorial
inscription for Mme Ramona Dominguez
Gil.
10 March 2024 ... This website has been
open for 24 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
14 February 2024 ... I have just found out that Robin Mackness,
author of, "Oradour
Massacre and Aftermath", died on 11th January 2021.
01 January 2024 ... Minor revision of the
Timeline.
22 November 2023 ...
Bibliography
updated.
23 October 2023 ...
Memorial tablet amended to show the inclusion of Ramona Dominguez Gil.
21 October 2023 ... Page showing
opening times of ruins and the Centre de la
Mémoire updated.
18 October 2023 ...
Please note that if you have recently written to me by email and not
had a reply, it is because I have being having technical issues. Please write
again and I will answer asap.
05 August 2023 ... Note regarding the closure and reopening of
the church removed from the Home Page.
21 July 2023 ... Note added to the Home
Page to say that the ruined church will reopen to the public after being
renovated, on Saturday 5th August 2023.
04 July 2023 ... Timeline
updated to show
Ramona Dominguez-Gil added to the list of victims.
10 March 2023 ... This website has been
open for 23 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
11 February 2023 ... Robert
Hébras, the last of the survivors from the Laudy Barn, died today in St
Junien, aged 97.
01 January 2023 ...
List of victims names completed,
this list will be added-to as information comes to hand and discrepancies in
names and dates are resolved.
07 December 2022 ... Showing
revised opening dates and times for
both ruins and the Centre de la Mémoire.
25 November 2022 ... List
of the victims names being added to the Appendices (over several weeks).
15 November 2022 ... Photo of
Diekmann replaced with a better quality version.
17 October 2022 ... Note added to
Home Page saying that the ruined church in the village is now closed to
visitors until mid-2023, to allow
repair work to take place.
13 August 2022 ... Number of
victims amended to show 643 with
effect from December 2019 when Mme Ramona Dominguez-Gil was added to the list.
01 June 2022 ... Minor update to
Bibliography page to make it display the image of the sewing machine properly.
25 May 2022 ... Minor update to
How to get there and places to stay advising visitors to check the official
Oradour website for the current Covid-19 advice.
21 March 2022 ... Most restrictions due to Covid-19 have been
removed from the Centre de la Mémoire and the ruins, see the Centre website for
full details.
10 March 2022 ... This website has been
open for 22 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
31January 2022 ...
Opening times for the ruins and the Centre
de la Mémoire updated to show the requirements that people must meet when
visiting the ruins and the Centre de la Mémoire in 2022.
01 January
2022 ... No specific new page additions to the website today, but I would like to
wish all readers a very happy New Year and offer you the hope that 2022 will see
the end of the world's Covid-19 problems. From today there will not be any
further additions to the Latest News page, all new
announcements will be made here on the Additions and Updates page.
16 December 2021 ... The
Home Page updated to show the annual closure of the
Centre de la Mémoire.
24 August 2021 ... A review of the
whole site has begun today, but individual pages will not be declared here if
they change; instead look at the foot of each page to see if and when it was
altered. The review is to be continuous and will not have an end date.
07 August 2021 ... A note added to
the Home Page advising all potential visitors to
check the health requirements required for entry, with the official
https://www.oradour.org website.
21 July 2021 ... Additional details
added to the Home Page regarding the, 'Health Pass'.
16 July 2021 ... Additional details
added to the Home Page regarding the 'Health
Pass' which the government is supposed to be issuing in the near future.
25 May 2021 ...
Opening times for the Centre and ruins
revised, with closing times now shown as possibly being one hour earlier
than before.
20 May 2021 ... The
Centre de la Mémoire will be open every
day from 09:00 to 18:00 (with appropriate health measures to prevent the spread
of Covid-19)
30 April 2021 ... Minor
update to the Timeline
10 April 2021 ... Opening details
changed to show access to the ruins only. The
Centre de la Mémoire is now closed to visitors, but the bookshop is available
for mail order only.
06 April 2021 ... The
Bibliography
updated to show Silent Village by Robert Pike.
22 March 2021 ...
From 22nd March, the bookshop in the
Centre de la Mémoire and the ruins themselves will open every day
between 09:00 and 18:00.
10 March 2021 ... This website has been
open for 21 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
11 February 2021 ... Due to the
measures taken to fight against Covid-19, the exhibits in the
Centre de la Mémoire
will remain closed until further notice. However, from 15th February, the
bookshop in the Centre and the ruins themselves will open every day between 13:00 and 17:30
29 January 2021 ... Home page
updated to show that the Centre de la Mémoire is now to
remain closed until further notice, due to the fight against the Covid-19
virus.
12 January 2021 ... Home page
updated to show the new expected reopening date for the
Centre de la Mémoire as being Monday 1st February at 09:00 (this is totally dependant on how well the fight
against Covid-19 is going at the time and it is possible that the opening could go back even further).
05 January 2021 ...
How
to get there and places to stay updated with dead links to some
accommodation removed.
01 January
2021 ... No additions to the website today, but I would like to wish all
readers a very happy New Year for 2021 and a hope that it will be better for
everyone than the wretched Covid-19 year of 2020.
16 December 2020 ...
Home page, How to get
there and places to stay, Latest News and Opening
times updated to show the winter closure of the Centre de la Mémoire and its
proposed reopening at 09:00 on Thursday 21st January 2021 (normally it would be
on 1st February 2021).
29 October 2020 ... Notice
added to the
Home Page, Latest News and the How to get there and
places to stay page, saying that the Centre de la Mémoire will be closed
with effect from Friday 30 October 2020 until
further notice (due to the spread of Covid-19).
26 August 2020 ... A new short page
added to the Appendices to describe the various
acts of vandalism that I have
seen carried out at Oradour.
22 August 2020 ...
Latest News updated to show the spray paint attack on the
Centre de la Mémoire.
06 August 2020 ... List of those
convicted in absentia at Bordeaux
in 1953 added to the Appendices.
31 July 2020 ... Johannes
Seefried statement added to
the Appendices.
21 July 2020 ... Otto
Weidinger's letter to the Minister of Justice
in 1968 added to the Appendices.
07 July 2020 ... Otto
Weidinger's statement made at Dortmund in 1962
added to the Appendices.
12 June 2020 ... Notice updated on
the Home Page, the Latest News
page and How to get there and places to stay,
to show the Centre de la Mémoire reopening at 09:00 on Monday 15th June 2020.
03 June 2020 ... Notice
amended on the
Home Page, Latest News and the How to get there and
places to stay pages saying that the Centre de la Mémoire can reopen as soon
as protective measurers have been installed.
26 May 2020 ... Entire site moved
onto "utf-8" character coding, if you find any anomalies such as strange
characters in any of the text, please let me know.
25 May 2020 ... Addition of
Heinz Werner's statement and the
Public Prosecutor's remarks on it.
05 May 2020 ... All the existing
Dortmund files have now been
updated and work commenced on translating, previously unreported statements.
22 April 2020 ...
All webpages
reviewed and the canonical link updated in the Head Section of them all.
09 April 2020 ... The
Timeline updated.
14 March 2020 ... Notice added to the
Home Page, Latest News and the How to get there and
places to stay page, saying that the Centre de la Mémoire is closed until
further notice, due to the spread of Covid-19
12 March 2020 ... A revised
statement by Sylvester Stadler
added to the Appendices.
10 March 2020 ... This website has been
open for 20 years today, making it by far the longest continually running
website on the World Wide Web dealing with the subject of Oradour-sur-Glane and
what happened there on Saturday 10th June 1944.
05 March 2020 ... Detlev Okrent
statement of November 1952 added
to the Appendices ("Detlev" can also be spelled as, "Detlef").
04 March 2020 ... The April 1963
statement by Detlef Okrent
updated.
03 March 2020 ... The
statement of Rudolf Lusar updated.
29 February 2020 ... All the entries for
Otto Kahn in the Appendices revised.
24 February 2020 ... All entries for
Georg Boos in the
Appendices revised.
15 February 2020 ... A
revised statement by Hans
Gerlach added to the Appendices.
13 February 2020 ... A revision of the
Dortmund' files has begun and
should be completed by May.
01 January 2020 ... No additions or
changes
made to the website today.
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