Additions and Updates

Oradour-sur-Glane 10th June 1944

Home Page: https://www.oradour.info

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General note: minor corrections, such as to spelling, will not normally be shown here.

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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