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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

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In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France
Left to right: Huguette Müller, and Marion Müller at the French resort village of Théoule-sur-Mer in 1943. (Courtesy of Tim Judah)
March 25, 2025, 5:44 am
In Nazi-occupied French Alps, a doctor risked death to save a Jewish girl. Why didn’t others?
Newly published ‘Two Sisters’ is a family memoir that goes back and forth in time to examine motivations for resistance and questions of morality in Vichy France
By Renee Ghert-Zand
In this photo taken on Thursday Jan. 30, 2020, Victor Perahia, interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen shows a Jewish badge as he speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
October 3, 2024, 7:23 pm
Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor, head of French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91
After years of silence, Perahia became a leading Holocaust educator; Macron: Ever-present ‘racism and antisemitism tormented him and fueled his strength to awaken minds’
By AP
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, right, talks to Jacques Fredj, head of the Shoah Memorial ,as they leave the train car symbolizing the Drancy camp, July 12, 2022 in Drancy, outside Paris (AP Photo/Thomas Padilla)
July 17, 2022, 2:13 pm
French Holocaust survivors mark 80 years since mass Vel d’Hiv roundup of Jews
Over 2 days in 1942, police herded 13,152 people, including 4,115 children, into the Winter Velodrome of Paris before they were sent on to Nazi camps; very few survived
By Angela Charlton and jade le deley
Victor Perahia, who was interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen, speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris, January 30, 2020 (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)
February 7, 2020, 5:11 am
Holocaust survivor’s gruesome memories leave mark with French teens
Victor Perahia captivates middle-schoolers in Drancy with his personal story; ‘This will surely stay with me the rest of my life,’ one says
By Lori Hinnant
Left: Children and staff of Maison St. Christophe (Saint Christopher's Orphanage) during World War II; Mary Elmes, who secretly brought Jewish children to be saved from Auschwitz. (Courtesy Midas Films)
January 27, 2018, 9:01 am
After saving Jewish children from Auschwitz, this humble heroine chose obscurity
Mary Elmes, only posthumously honored for her heroism, quietly turned down the France’s Légion d’Honneur. A new book explores the modest Quaker’s life-saving efforts
By JP O’ Malley
SS captain Alois Brunner (screen capture: YouTube)
January 11, 2017, 11:29 am
Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner died in Syria basement in 2001 – report
Eichmann’s ‘right-hand man,’ in charge of Drancy camp during WWII, was responsible for the death of an estimated 130,000 Jews
By Alain JEAN-ROBERT and Fiachra GIBBONS
An original railway carriage stands at the Judenrampe platform at Auschwitz (Adam Jones/Wikimedia Commons)
February 5, 2016, 6:55 pm
Ex-Auschwitz SS guard, 93, faces German trial in April
Former death camp worker oversaw the arrival of trains full of Jews; on his watch, at least 1,075 perished in gas chambers
By AFP
Sheikh Omar Kayal, imam of the Bilal mosque (right), sits with Israeli Muslim clerics at a reception for French Imam Hassen Chalghoumi in Majd Al-Krum, May 29 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
September 2, 2013, 2:11 pm
French interfaith imam assaulted, called ‘Zionist’ in Tunisia
Hassen Chalghoumi uninjured in attack in presence of wife and children; assailant arrested
By JTA
French Imams lay a wreath at the Holocaust memorial site in Yad Vashem, Tuesday (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)
February 6, 2013, 8:05 am
Imams visit Holocaust site to show tolerant Islam
Muslim leaders from all over France gather at Drancy memorial, site of former detention camp
Karen Allali of the Jewish Guides and Scouts of France and Jean-Charles Zerbib (far right), an official of the Unified Jewish Social Fund, speak in Marseille, where Jewish groups are struggling to absorb cutbacks in government funding. (Cnaan Liphshiz via JTA)
January 3, 2013, 3:05 am
French Jews pay a price for government effort to curb extremism
Attempts to cut off funding to radical Muslim groups are harming Jewish organizations, while Christian groups haven’t been affected
By Cnaan Liphshiz
September 21, 2012, 11:11 pm
France honors Jews placed in WWII internment camp
Hollande attends ceremony at Drancy, where tens of thousands passed on the way to their deaths
Hassen Chalghoumi at the Hall of Names in Yad Vashem, June 2012 (photo credit: Elhanan Miller / Times of Israel)
June 4, 2012, 10:07 pm
‘Imam of the Jews’ pays historic visit to Yad Vashem
Hassen Chalghoumi of France says Holocaust deniers are accomplices in the crime
By Elhanan Miller
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