The Deportation Memorial in Paris. Located at the tip of the Ile de la Cité, just behind the gardens at the back of Notre Dame, this memorial is a stark and haunting reminder of the tens of thousands of French people who were deported to concentration camps during the Second World War. In this part of the memorial, this "hallway" contains a light for each of the deportees.
I decided to choose this image for today, given that a Vichy collaborator, Maurice Papon, died yesterday at the age of 96 after only serving a few years in prison late in his life (and going for decades without prosecution, being a paid civil servant, and even rising to the position of budget minister before his past was "outed" in 1983. It still took 14 more years to bring him to trial.)
