The Mémorial des Martyrs de la Déportation (English: "Memorial to the Martyrs of the Deportation" ) [2] is a memorial to the 200,000 people who were deported from Vichy France to the Nazi concentration camps during World War II . It is located in Paris, France on the site of a former morgue , underground behind Notre Dame on Île de la Cité . It was designed by French modernist architect Georges-Henri Pingusson and was inaugurated by Charles de Gaulle in 1962. [WIKIPEDIA]