Documentation centre
The Verdun Memorial document collection was founded in 1974 thanks to a generous donation by two retired officers. Since then, it has grown considerably through gifts, purchases and documentation monitoring. The centre exists to ensure that the Battle of Verdun and through it, the Great War, are remembered accurately, based on veteran’s memories and taking into account advances in related historical research.
The centre
The documentation centre enjoys an attractive reading room on the top floor of the Memorial. It serves various different groups: historians looking to find out about different aspects of the battle or deepen their understanding, people tracing the experiences of an ancestor during the First World War, teachers designing educational materials and everyone interested in the period. You can now view the document collection via the Poitiers Education Authority’s Canopé e-sidoc portal.