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Article: France Commemorates Jews Transportation in Nazi Camps
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- July 21, 1996
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About one hundred people joined this morning a ceremony in Drancy,
northeast of Paris, commemorating 67,000 Jews who were sent from a
concentration camp there to Nazi death camps during the 1940-44 Vichy
collaboration period.
The ceremony, held at the former site of the concentration camp,
was presided by government representative Eric Raoult and prefect of
Seine-Saint-Denis Jean-Pierre Duport, and was participated by some
survivors of Nazi death camps, Agence France Presse reported.
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