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History of the project
21 October 1997: the governement makes a commitment to create a “historial” at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp. Jean-Pierre Masseret, junior minister for veterans’ affairs, holds a press conference and missions are presented for 1998, including refounding the Natzweiler-Struthof national consultative commission and designing a Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp museum-memorial.
1 February 1999: appointment of a project manager at the veterans’ affairs ministry’s Memory and Historical Information Office (DMIH) to design the project. The Memory, Heritage and Archives Department (DMPA) takes over the mission in late 1999. br />
15 September 1999: the project manager presents a preliminary feasibility report to the executive board.
26 June 2000: presentation of the museum planning report to the executive board.
July-November 2000: preparation of the architecture competition.
28 April 2001: first meeting of the CERD research council at Struthof
23 May 2001: presentation of the four competing projects to the executive board
1 June 2001: Pierre-Louis Faloci is chosen as the winner.
6 February 2002: Jacques Floch, junior minister of defence in charge of veterans’ affairs, presents Pierre-Louis Faloci’s project to the press
23 June 2002: at the annual Struthof ceremony, Hamlaoui Mekachera, junior minister for veterans’ affairs, presents the future CERD to former deportees in the former barracks museum. Five items symbolising deportation to the camp are placed in a museum display case
28 June 2002: the building permit is filed.
22 June 2003: Hamlaoui Mekachera, junior minister for veterans’ affairs, lays the cornerstone of the European Centre on Resistance and Deportation.
12 August 2003: construction starts .
February 2004: the Kartoffelkeller is excavated
December 2004: the main construction work is completed.
Summer/autumn 2005: installation of museum exhibits.
3 November 2005: inauguration of the CERD by Mr. Jacques Chirac, president of France.
4-6 November 2005: open-house. Some 15,000 visitors discover the CERD and the new KL-Natzweiler museum.
