Drancy - France Honors Jews Placed In WWII Internment Camp |
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French President Francois Hollande (C), flanked by Chief Rabbi of France's Gilles Bernheim (R), listens to Jacques Fredj, director of a Holocaust memorial centre as he participates in the inauguration of the Holocaust memorial centre in Drancy, near Paris, France, 21 September 2012. EPA/KENZO Drancy, France - France has inaugurated a memorial to tens of thousands of Jews forced into a World War II internment camp during World War II that was set up with cooperation from the Nazi collaborationist Vichy government.
Almost 65,000 Jews passed through Drancy, north of Paris, on the way to Holocaust death camps abroad from 1941 to 1944; only 2,000 survived.
At Friday’s inauguration, French President Francois Hollande said he hoped the suffering that was experienced at Drancy would give birth to “vigilance” today.
The French government only began acknowledging the country’s role in the wartime deaths of much of its Jewish population in the mid-1990s, under then-President Jacques Chirac. Since then, several Holocaust memorials have gone up around the country, and many schools prominently display the names of Jewish children taken to their deaths.
French President Francois Hollande (C) lays a wreath of flowers during a ceremony in front of a train boxcar which symbolized the Drancy transit deportation camp in Drancy, near Paris, France, 21 September 2012. EPA/PHILIPPE WOJAZER 
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Sep 21, 2012 at 11:05 AM wsbrgh Says:Report as Inappropriate
"honors" is not the appropriate term for innocents who were victimized. "memorializes" is more accurate.
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Sep 21, 2012 at 11:56 AM Buchwalter Says:Report as Inappropriate
My brother was shipped from Belgium to Drancy and then toBirkenau
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Sep 21, 2012 at 01:40 PM Anonymous Says:Report as Inappropriate
Actually there were 75,000 Jews deported from Drancy. I have Serge Klarsfeld book called 'Memorial to the Jews Deported from France 1942 - 1944.
I can only look at it, with all its lists on Tisha B'Av and Yom Hashoah.
If you want to memorialize the kedoshim, get a copy of this memorial from the Klarsfeld foundation - book distribution center - p.o. box 137, S. Deerfield , Mass. 01373. It is published by the Beate Klarsfeld Foundation, N.Y.
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Sep 21, 2012 at 02:26 PM Applestein Says:Report as Inappropriate
and now we cant wear kippas great honor
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Sep 22, 2012 at 04:53 PM Butterfly Says:Report as Inappropriate
To #4 Who do we thank for that. They remember with one hand and you cannot cover your head with the other. A bunch of HYPOCRITES!!