Posted on 01/24/2005 4:50:41 AM PST by Cornpone
A stone wall engraved with the names of 76,000 Jews who were deported from France to Nazi death camps during World War II has been unveiled in Paris. The "Wall of Names" memorial is located at the entrance to the French capital's newly renovated Holocaust museum.
Some 11,000 of those deported from 1942 to 1944 were children. Nearly all were killed - mostly at Auschwitz in Poland.
French President Jacques Chirac will officially open the site on Tuesday, before flying to Auschwitz.
Mr Chirac will be one of many world leaders present at ceremonies to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp.
'Prayer to the dead'
More than 2,000 Holocaust survivors and relatives of victims attended the inauguration ceremony in Paris' central Marais district.
They also took part in reading out a prayer to the dead.
The new site is an expansion of two institutions - the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr and the Centre for Contemporary Jewish Documentation.
"[The Memorial] will help in teaching a story that continues to haunt our everyday life," said its president Eric de Rothschild.
It took two years for several researchers to compile the list, drawing on Nazi secret police records and also Jewish archives.
"This wall keeps our innermost secrets in its stone and delivers them to those who pass," said France's former Health Minister Simone Veil, herself an Auschwitz survivor.
When the memorial officially opens on Tuesday, visitors will also be able to visit the basement crypt where ashes of some of the death camps' victims are kept.
Hi, Michael, how are you ?
Of course phone booths are bigger than that one.
it would seem that way LOL
Still fine, thanks, what about you? These French- & German-bashers are annoying, because they rather believe in and spread false allegations instead of information.
to them an allegation and a fact are no different
... at least when it´s against Germany or France, lol.
I have to say that French bashing can be fun but when people start to insult the country in terms of its cheese, wine and scenery I will stand up for them.
And as for their Brandy, well it is not comparable.
Then or now?
I´m with you. I love French cheese. It´s a shame that you have so lousy sorts of cheese over there in the States. And the imported goods are expensive.
Now, more concrete: at the time when he/she has visited Germany and/or France.
Us cheese is very commercialised.
British cheese has good cheese. Very strong and very creamy.
Proper Westcountry Cheddar cheese tastes nothing like the crap in stores. Unless it smells of cow manure it aint the real thing.
*singing* "It´s a shame....shame... such a shame. ... It´s a sh-ame!" ;-)
Well, I haven't been across the pond in a few years. I hope it has improved.
Which experience did you have with anti-semitism in Europe (seen by your own eyes)?
Now, of course.
That's what bothers me most - the willingness to spread what they must know is false information, pure propaganda. I sometimes fail to see the difference between the Jew-bashing of the 1930s and the EU-bashing of the 2000s.
Both revolve on some kind of "racial inferiority", or "cultural indigence", or "absence of moral fiber". How original !
What are the big news in Germany right now, Michael ?
Thanks for the first hand report with specific examples.
I disagree with the french "ambassadors" on this thread and
I AM FRENCH for Bush since a long time!
The new attitude of french government toward US administration is only diplomacy.BARNIER said FRANCE will never send any soldier in IRAK.
CHIRAC since many years deny the evidence, the fact of the christian roots of EUROPE.He refused to mention it in European constitution.
Concerning antisemitism in FRANCE i think CHIRAC is not credible.I don't believe hese words, good words,and i look facts and hese political choices in foreign policy.(note that CHIRAC is not very clear about collaboration with nazi of french people about antisemitism)
This government made everything they could,till lying,till dishonesty, with the help of public media,against the Bush administration and against Bush reelection...
Sorry but that is complete rubbish
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