Cimetière parisien de Thiais

**Cimetière de Thiais**
Cimetière de Thiais
	Entrance of the Cimetière de Thiais
Details
Established	1929
Location	Thiais
Type	Public (non-denominational)
Owned by	Mairie de Paris
Size	103 hectares (250 acres)
No. of graves	150,000
Find a Grave	2160380

Cimetière de Thiais (also known as Cimetière Parisien de Thiais) is a Parisien cemetery located in the commune of Thiais, which is in the Val-de-Marne department, in the Île-de-France region.

History

The cemetery was openened in october 1929 and is therefore the newest of the Parisien cemeteries extra muros. It is now a true cosmopolitan cemetery, where many faiths are represented.^[1]

Notes

The cemetery is the second largest Parisien cemetery. Only Pantin is larger. There are about 6,000 trees. The cemetery is divided into 123 numbered divisions in which there are an estimated 150,000 graves. Because the cemetery is so large, people with a walking disability can be driven around.

Notable burials

In divisions 48 through 55 there are Jardins de la Fraternité which are meant for burial of those who in Paris who could not afford burial or who could not be identified.
There is a monument for those who have given their bodies to science (in division 102).
Section 94 is reserverved for stillbirths.
There are military sections in divisions 1 and 17.

There are also memorials to

Monument for the French resistance (1942) (division 7)
The Ermenonville crash in 1974 (division 16)
The Paris-Brazzaville crash in 1961 (division 22)
Monument for the Policier auxiliaires, persons who have chosen to their national service in the French national police force (division 25)
Monument for French Indochina solidarity (division 36)
Monuments for Génie de la Terre (Chinese protective deities) (division 36 and 44)

Individual burials

Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry who was later reburied in the cemetery of Bourg-la-Reine
André Berley
Francisco Boix
Marcel Bucard
Jean Cassou
Georges Catroux
Paul Celan
André Deed
Jean-Luc Delarue
Kurt Gerstein
Jean Hérold-Paquis
Catherine Hessling
Loumia Hiridjee
Gisèle Lestrange, wife of Paul Celan
Pascal Mazzotti
Farhad Mehrad
Gérald Neveu
Alice Prin
Albert Raisner
Joseph Roth
Han Ryner
Lev Sedov, son of Léon Trotsky and his second wife Natalia Sedova
Franz Stock
Laetitia Toureaux, murder victim^[2]
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Zog of Albania

Location

Located to the southwest of the city of Paris, France, the main entrance to the Cimetière de Thiais is located at 261 Route de Fontainebleau, in Thiais (near the junction with Avenue de la Republique). There is also a smaller entrance: Porte Est on Avenue de Général de Gaulle.

The inhabitants of Thiais are buried in the communal cemetery just of Avenue Général de Gaulle, near Espace des 4 Saisons.

Public transport

The Cimetière de Thiais is a short walk from the Villejuif – Louis Aragon (Paris Métro) métro station, which can be reached by taking line 7. The nearest railway station is Pont de Rungis – Aéroport d'Orly and which is served by line C, although it is not really nearby.

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The Cimetière de Thiais is also served by bus lines 185, 192, 285 and 396.

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There is a Vélib' station at Avenue de Fontainebleau (42703).