- Title: Macron decries anti-Semitism on 80th anniversary of Jewish deportations
- Date: 17th July 2022
- Summary: FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, ARRIVING FOR SPEECH MACRON GREETING ATTENDEES (SOUNDBITE) (French) FRENCH PRESIDENT, EMMANUEL MACRON, SAYING: "If France betrayed itself with that (Vichy collaborationist) regime -- because it has renounced what it is inseparable from, the Republic, humanism -- this was not the whole of France, this was not the whole Republic, not the Rep
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- Keywords: France Holocaust Jew Petain Shoah Vichy WW2 collaboration extermination nazi
- Location: PITHIVIERS, FRANCE
- City: PITHIVIERS, FRANCE
- Country: France
- Topics: Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA002236217072022RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: French President Emmanuel Macron warned against anti-Semitism and historical revisionism on Sunday (July 17) as he commemorated victims of the Holocaust on the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of Jewish families.
On July 16-17, 1942, around 13,000 people were taken to the Winter Velodrome, the Vel d'Hiv, in Paris before being sent on to concentration camps across Europe. It was the largest mass detention of Jewish people by French police in collaboration with the Nazi German occupiers.
Macron spoke at the inauguration of a memorial in the central town of Pithiviers, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Paris. Pithiviers was the second largest transit camp and deportation point in France for Jews, after Drancy.
"We have not finished with anti-Semitism and we must be lucid in observing it. (It) is more ardent and rampant," said Macron, citing examples of anti-Semitism in acts of terrorism, in graffiti on walls, on social media and as something that crops up in debates on some TV channels.
In his speech, Macron warned against a "new type of revisionism" and reiterated the active role of France in targeting Jewish people during the occupation.
The Shoah Memorial in Paris, which collects archives on France's Holocaust victims, has launched an appeal to reach the last witnesses and survivors of the Vel d'Hiv round-up.
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