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Thursday, January 23, 2020
Macron visits memorial for the deportation of Jews from France during WWII
French President Emmanuel Macron visits a memorial for the deportation of Jews from France near the city of Beit Shemesh.
The memorial, at the Rogleet Forest, measures up to 100 meters in length and 13 meters in height and contains the convoys of deportations first and last names, and date and place of birth of the deportees.
The grove consists of 80,000 pine trees, in memory of the 80,000 Jews who were deported from France to Nazi death and labor camps during the Holocaust.
Macron laid a wreath and met with youth who are descendants of deportees.