Monument to Jewish Fallen Soldiers

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The monument to the Israelite dead is a monument to the dead commemorating the French, Allies and foreign volunteers of the Israelite faith who died for France during the First World War. It is located in Fleury-devant-Douaumont, on the site of the Ossuaire de Douaumont, in the department of Meuse. It is classified as historical monuments by order of 2 May 1996.

Since September 2023, it has been forming with the ossuary, the national necropolis, and the Muslim monument, the memorial complex of Douaumont, which is part of the funeral and memorial sites of the Western Front of the First World War inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage. The construction of this monument takes place in the context of the arrival in Germany of Nazism, violently anti-Semitic, and of an anti-Semitism growing in France, which will lead in the following years to the Shoah, during which 76,000 Jews of France will be murdered by the Nazi occupier with the complicity of the Vichy regime.