80 years since the deportation of the Jews of Paris: "Anti-Semitism has not disappeared"

French President Emmanuel Macron warned against anti-Semitism and historical revisionism during a speech to mark the victims of the Holocaust on the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from Paris, known as the Val de Iber

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18/07/2022

Monday, 18 July 2022, 12:22 Updated: 12:31

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French President Emmanuel Macron warned against anti-Semitism and historical revisionism during a speech delivered yesterday (Sunday) to mark the victims of the Holocaust on the 80th anniversary of the expulsion of the Jews from Paris, known as the Hunt and the D'Iber.

On July 17-16, 1942, 13,000 people were taken to the Vel D 'Hiver (Vel D`Hiver) at the corner of Avenue de Grenelle in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, before being sent to concentration camps in Europe.

It was the largest deportation of Jews by French police in collaboration with the Nazis.

The Jews deported as part of the operation accounted for about a quarter of the 42,000 Jews sent from France to Auschwitz in 1942, of whom only 811 survived at the end of the war.

Macron spoke at the Hanukkah ceremony of a monument in the center of Pétivia south of Paris.

Pétivia was the second largest transit camp in France, after Drancy.

"Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, it is still here - stronger and more rampant," Macron said, providing examples of anti-Semitism in terrorist acts, graffiti, social media and sometimes discussions on French television networks.

Memorial plaque for the event (Photo: Official website, by Djampa - Created by Ma'ale Hatzira, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=7338028)

Earlier, Prime Minister Elizabeth Bourne said that "France had lost part of its soul" in the gathering of Jews in the Wall d'Or, "which went a step further than even the Nazis demanded."

She said, "No senior government official was aware of the action."

In his speech, Macron warned against "a new kind of revisionism," and again emphasized France's active role in focusing on Jews during the Nazi occupation.

The Holocaust Museum in Paris, which collects archives of Holocaust victims in France, has published a request to reach the last witnesses and survivors of the collection.

"We need to recognize everyone, in order not to repeat what happened."

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