As part of the 80th anniversary of the Normandy Landings and the Swing D-Day Festival, the Friends of Villa Louis are staging this interactive photographic exhibition on the duty to remember.

Eleven war witnesses from the 1st to the 3rd generation tell us what they experienced on D-Day and what their ancestors passed on to them. These moving accounts take us back to the dark days of the war at Swrod Beach, right through to the joys and celebrations of liberation.

André Ledran, 11 years old at the time of the landings, former mayor of Ouistreham

Gérald Ellen and Julie Calberg Ellen, the duty of remembrance passed down through familial love

Olivier de Monicault, grandson of Marguerite de Blagny, the strong woman of the Château

Jean-Pierre Barret, aged 12, in the front row at D-Day

Melville Bouchard, grandson of Georges Bouchard, one of the members of the Kieffer Commando