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Article: French President Jacques Chirac warned about anti-Semitism in France as he paid homage to a new wall bearing the names of some 76,000 Jews deported from France to Nazi concentration camps.(Briefly noted)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- February 22, 2005
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French President Jacques Chirac warned about anti-Semitism in France as he paid homage to a new wall bearing the names of some 76,000 Jews deported from France to Nazi concentration camps. "I want to solemnly repeat that anti-Semitism has no place in France," said Chirac, as he inaugurated a newly renovated Holocaust memorial in Paris. It was one of many tributes in late January to the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Polish death camp of Auschwitz. A special session at the United Nations appealed for ...