Is it the original town of Oradour-sur-Glane,France?
Because it was destroyed on June 10 1944 by massacre 642 people by a German Waffen-SS company...until a new town was built nearby the after the war however Charles de Gaulle (the 18th President of France) order the original maintained as a...
i remember when I was a kid, i wrote the author of a book series i read (Encyclopedia Brown) and he actually sent me a letter back with a personal note on the side. it still hangs in a frame in my elementary school library