TEMOINS3945

Largely inspired by what we have been able to do for at least ten years, our TEMOINS3945 project is to construct together with structures from civil society a scientific program with a strong memorial and societal dimension. The originality of the project is to propose an unpublished volume of testimonies collected at various periods about the Resistance and what me name the deportation of repression, annotated and documented. As the last witnesses disappear, it is imperative to provide reference corpora. With TEMOINS3945, we shall put hundreds of written, audio and audiovisual testimonies online, accompanied by a presentation, a critical apparatus, keywords and additional documents (family archives and public archives). We touch on the heart of the scientific process with identification of sources and constitution of a critical apparatus, since we know that sources do not speak for themselves. The search for additional documents is also part of this heuristic approach. This work will be carried out jointly by academics and by networks of correspondents from “civil society”. These partners consider the transmission of memory to be one of their top priorities. The associated foundations, like the Memorial, have a scientific council. The partnership is long-standing, particularly within the MATRICE team (2011-2024), of which the Foundations and the Rivesaltes Camp Memorial are partners in a Consortium agreement.