CLAP 007 – Your Stories Are Headed to the Museum
“My father left behind a diary—sometimes written on toilet paper.” “I have a poem titled *The Bells of Peace Behind the Barbed Wire*.” “Are there any records that would help me find Oskar, the German prisoner who worked for my grandfather?” Three messages received in the MUCAP inbox, three personal stories, three ways of examining […]
“It Wasn’t Easy”: How France Put German Prisoners to Work After the Liberation
Article published in Ouest France on August 30, 2026, by Claire Dubois Fabien Théofilakis (1), an associate professor of contemporary history at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and deputy director of the Marc Bloch Center in Berlin, discusses the fate of Nazi soldiers at the end of World War II. There were 700,000 of them working […]
“It’s the only way to keep our father from being seen as a Nazi”: artifacts that tell the stories of German prisoners
Article published on July 5, 2026, on France 3 Normandie – France Info | By Karine Lepointeur The collections of the future Museum of War Captivity continue to grow. Diaries, personal items, photographs… These are all unique artifacts that shed light on the lives of prisoners in camps such as the one at Foucarville, now […]
Construction of the Museum of Wartime Captivity is expected to begin in 2026 in Ravenoville
Article published in Ouest-France on June 23, 2026 Groundbreaking for the future Museum of Wartime Captivity (Mucap), located in Ravenoville (Manche), will take place in October 2026. The museum is expected to open in 2028. Dominique Imbert, president of the Warren J. Kennedy Foundation—the organization behind the Museum of Wartime Captivity—and Maya Duburch, project leader […]
More on the Museum of Captivity project at this former German prison camp in Normandy
Article published in Ouest France on 18/04/2026 by Christophe Leconte The MUCAP (Musée des captivités de guerre) will open in spring 2028 in Foucarville, now part of Sainte-Mère-Église (Manche). Content, operation, price: we know more about this project with an original theme on a former 1944 prison camp. The W.J. Kennedy Association, named after the […]
“Becoming the reference on the subject”: the project for a museum on wartime captivity moves forward near Sainte-Mère-Eglise
Article published on ICI Cotentin on May 11, 2026 – By Pierre Coquelin Planning permission was granted in February 2026 for the construction of a wartime captivity museum between Ravenoville and Foucarville. This is where a military camp for German prisoners was set up between 1944 and 1946. Ici Cotentin reports on the progress of […]
A museum of wartime captivity planned for Foucarville, Manche
Article published on May 6, 2026 in Ouest France “ligne de la défense” defense news from west to east – By Philippe Chapleau Memorial tourism in La Manche is about to take on a new dimension. On December 12, 2025, the Conseil Départemental de la Manche officially launched the project for a museum of wartime […]
CLAP 006 – MUCAP: LET’S TALK ABOUT THE MUSEUM TRAIL…
For almost two years, in parallel with the architectural design and scenographic proposals, a major effort to collect archives in France, Europe and the United States has been building the future MUCAP (Museum of War Captivity). The presentation of the archives – documents and objects – is based on a common thread that runs through […]
A museum to remember
It will open in spring 2028, in Foucarville. The future museum of German war captivity will be the first entirely dedicated to this subject. To find out more. Article published in Manche’Mag April 2026 INTERVIEW WITH…Catherine Brunaud-Rhyn, Vice-President in charge of Attractiveness, Culture and Territorial Development Why does this captivity museum project make so much […]
Nowe muzeum we Francji szuka pamiątek także na Śląsku i w Zagłębiu. Opowie nimi historię jeńców wojennych
Article published in Dziennik Zachodni, a Polish regional newspaper distributed in Upper Silesia. December 15, 2025 This article was published as part of a campaign in the Polish, English and German press calling for testimonials, donations or loans of archives and objects. It concerns several prison camps in Poland, the UK and France. “The museum’s […]