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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 341

Vel d’Hiv Roundup

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
France’s veterans’ minister Geneviève Darrieussecq (right) and Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (2nd right) take part in a ceremony commemorating the Vel d’Hiv roundup of Jews during World War II, in Paris, July 19, 2020 (video screenshot)
July 19, 2020, 6:17 pm
French officials mark anniversary of mass arrest of Jews during Holocaust
Veterans minister and Paris mayor pay respects to more than 13,000 victims of 1942 Vel d’Hiv roundup by Nazi-allied Vichy government
By AP and ToI Staff
Two US soldiers, shown in 1945 or 1946 inspecting a Rembrandt self-portrait in a salt mine where the Nazis stored stolen and hidden art (Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration)
June 5, 2019, 9:46 pm
France ramps up bid to return stolen WWII Jewish assets
Thousands of artifacts plundered by Nazis still held in French museums; government vows ‘active role’ to find owners
By AFP
The monument to children killed in the Holocaust in Paris, France that was vandalized in May 2019 (European Jewish Congress)
May 17, 2019, 4:55 pm
Paris Holocaust monument for children ‘censored’ in unusual case of vandalism
Among sentences painted over was assertion that victims were ‘killed in terrible and cruel conditions,’ words ‘extermination’ and that Nazis wanted to ‘annihilate’ Jews
By Cnaan Liphshiz
A man stands in front of a picture of Mireille Knoll and a message announcing a "Marche Blanche" condemning the alleged anti-Semitic motive for of her killing, placed on the fence surrounding her building in Paris on March 27, 2018, after she was found dead in her apartment on March 23 by firefighters called to extinguish a blaze. Two people have been charged with the murder of an 85-year-old French Jewish woman, who was stabbed and whose body was then set alight in a crime being treated as anti-Semitic, a judicial source said on March 27, 2018. ( AFP PHOTO / Lionel BONAVENTURE)
March 28, 2018, 3:07 am
Jewish grandmother murdered in Paris home ‘didn’t believe in evil’
Granddaughter says Holocaust survivor Mireille Knoll was ‘in contact with many friends of all religions’; a neighbor and accomplice have been charged in anti-Semitic slaying
By Agencies
Mireille Knoll, 85, a Holocaust survivor who was found murdered in her Paris apartment (Courtesy)
March 27, 2018, 10:08 am
Slain Holocaust survivor’s family: She’d known her killer since he was a boy
Two men charged in allegedly anti-Semitic murder of Mireille Knoll, 85, who was found stabbed and burned in her Paris apartment
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Mireille Knoll, 85, a Holocaust survivor who was found murdered in her Paris apartment (Courtesy)
March 26, 2018, 7:52 pm
French to charge two with anti-Semitic murder of 85-year-old Holocaust survivor
After Mireille Knoll found stabbed to death and burned in her Paris apartment, FM Le Drian says France must continue to fight anti-Semitism
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Mireille Knoll, 85, a Holocaust survivor who was found murdered in her Paris apartment (Courtesy)
March 26, 2018, 4:34 pm
Two arrested over brutal killing of 85-year-old French Jewish Holocaust survivor
Mireille Knoll found stabbed to death following blaze at her apartment; investigators say no apparent anti-Semitic motive but Jewish umbrella group urges further investigation
By Agencies
Jean-Luc Melenchon of the French far-left Parti de Gauche and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, attends a political rally on April 12, 2017 in Lille, France. (Photo by Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images via JTA)
July 20, 2017, 12:21 am
French left-wing head slams Macron for admitting French guilt in Holocaust
Melenchon blasts president for inviting Netanyahu, the ‘leader of the extreme right-wing government in Israel,’ to memorial event
By JTA
Serge Klarsfeld poses in his office in Paris on July 10, 2017. (AFP Photo Thomas Samson)
July 17, 2017, 1:12 am
Nazi-hunter accuses France of ‘complicity’ in genocide
In interview on eve of 75th anniversary of the Vel d’Hiv deportations, Serge Klarsfeld says it is ‘historical accuracy’
By JTA
French President Emmanuel Macron embraces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup in Paris on July 16, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / POOL / Kamil Zihnioglu)
July 16, 2017, 4:27 pm
Macron denounces anti-Zionism as a new form of anti-Semitism
Unprecedented statement from a French leader comes as he hosts Netanyahu at Paris event marking 75 years since 13,152 French Jews were deported to Auschwitz
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting on July 3, 2017. (Ohad Zweigenberg/POOL)
July 7, 2017, 8:44 pm
Protest planned for Paris Holocaust memorial event during Netanyahu visit
Call follows op-ed by Jewish head of pro-Palestinian lobby claiming that pre-state Israel did nothing to help French Holocaust victims
By JTA
French President Emmanuel Macron (C) gestures as he speaks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and his wife Sara (rear L) at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, on July 1, 2017. (AFP Photo/Patrick Hertzog)
July 6, 2017, 11:45 pm
Netanyahu to visit Paris for 75th anniversary of mass deportation of French Jews
On July 16-17, 1942, French authorities rounded up 13,152 Jews, including 4,000 children, and sent them to Nazi concentration and death camps
By AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara visit a synagogue in Strasbourg, France, on June 30, 2017. (Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash90)
July 2, 2017, 1:06 pm
Netanyahu to meet with Macron, attend Paris Holocaust ceremony
PM talked briefly this weekend with French president in Strasbourg, where he joined Helmut Kohl’s funeral ceremony, spoke in synagogue
By ToI Staff
French presidential election candidate Emmanuel Macron signs autographs during a campaign visit to Sarcelles, north of Paris, Thursday, April 27, 2017. (Michel Euler/AP)
April 28, 2017, 8:17 pm
Racism, anti-Semitism and WWII move to center stage for France’s rival candidates
Macron visits village where more than 600 were murdered; Le Pen rails against mass immigration as her party successor quits amid accusations of Holocaust denial
By Angela Charlton
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