Family by family, house by house, French police rounded up 13,000 people in two terrifying days in July 1942, sending them to Nazi death camps simply because they were Jews. Eighty years later, France honors the victims and tries to keep their memory alive. For France’s dwindling number of war crimes survivors, Sunday’s commemoration ceremonies are especially important. At a time of rising anti-Semitism and far-right discourse sugarcoating France’s role in the Holocaust, they worry that the lessons of history are being forgotten. A week of ceremonies marking 80 years since the Vel d’Hiv police raid on July 16-17, 1942...
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