War Damages 1940-1945. The scale of destruction in five Hainaut cities.
An exhibition at the Mons Memorial Museum.
From 16 March to 8 September 2024, the Mons Memorial Museum will host an exhibition on the damage caused by World War II in Charleroi, La Louvière, Mons, Saint-Ghislain and Tournai.
This exhibition is organized in partnership with the State Archives of Belgium, the State Archives repositories in the Provinces, CegeSoma and the cities of La Louvière and Charleroi. It is based mainly on the very rich files on war damage to private property in Hainaut, recently transferred to the State Archives repository in Mons.
CegeSoma provided iconographic documents and, above all, contextualized these events, which destroyed or severely damaged thousands of buildings and cost the lives of hundreds of people.