“From the manufacture of the first launchers to the development of space activities”
Launch lecture organised by Paul Andrieu of the AACE.
- With Laurent Thierry, doctor in history, historian at La Coupole (Centre of history and memory in Nord Pas de Calais)
- Claude Favre, granddaughter of a deportee from Toulouse, and author of the biographies of the deportees of Toulouse and the region
- Jean-Claude Renou, space historian.
“Immersed in the hell of Dora, 9000 singular destinies”
An exhibition created by La Coupole, the Centre for the history and memory of Nord Pas de Calais. From 15 to 31 May 2019.
This exhibition is part of the cultural programming of La Coupole within the calendar of the Dora deportees research project. Presented in preview at La Coupole and inaugurated on October 19, 2018 in the presence of the main partners of the project and the families of deportees, it prefigures a much more substantial exhibition that will be organised in 2020 on the occasion of the 75 years of the end of the Nazi concentration camp system and Mittelbau-Dora.
“Children from Buschdorf” (film France Télévision – 46 minutes)
A film by Anne-Sophie Chaumier Leconte, Carole Filippi, Oktay Senghul and Nicolas Ducrot. From May 15 to 31-continuous
“Ulrich, Christel, Rüdiger or Ewald were young children in 1948. Without understanding why, they leave a devastated Germany for France, with their families. In Vernon, a village in Normandy, they benefit from preferential treatment, are well housed and fed. Far from their roots, living almost in autarchy, the children recreate an imaginary world in the Woods: the Republic of Buschdorf… But who are they? Their story is unbelievable. Their fathers are all engineers of the Third Reich who worked on the very first ballistic missile: the famous v2. In secret, France recovered them to design the first French rockets. With the testimony of these children and the unpublished archives of their fathers, we reveal one of the most unknown stories of the post-war period. “
Free entry
This event is organised at the Cité de l’espace by les Amis de la Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Déportation (Délégation 31) with the support of ONAC, La Coupole, les Amis de la Cité de l’espace, 3AF, AAE and CNES.
