France Guide
The Rhône valley
Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation
Address: 14 avenue Berthelot, M° Perrache/Jean-Macé
Opening time: Wed– Fri 9am–5.30pm, Sat & Sun 9.30am–6pm
Price: €4
The station area around Perrache is of little interest, but over the Rhône, across the adjacent pont Gallieni, is the Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation In addition to a library of books, videos, memoirs and other documents recording experiences of resistance, occupation and deportation to the camps, there's an exhibition space housed over the very cellars and cells in which Klaus Barbie, the Gestapo boss of Lyon, tortured and murdered his victims. Barbie was brought back from Bolivia and tried in Lyon in 1987 for crimes against humanity; the principal "exhibit" is a moving and unsettling 45-minute video (five shows daily; French only) of the trial in which some of his victims recount their terrible ordeal.