Paris Square is Renamed 'Place of the Jewish Martyrs' - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Advertisement A square in central Paris, on the banks of the Seine, was re-named last week “Place of the Jewish Martyrs,” marking the 44th anniversary of the round-up and deportation of nearly 15,000 Parisian Jews to Nazi death camps. Premier Jacques Chirac, who is also Mayor of Paris, unveiled a plaque in the presence of Theo Klein, president of the representative organization of French Jews (CRIF), Ady Steg, president of the Alliance Israelite Universelle and Israel’s Ambassador to France, Ovadia Soffer. The inscription on the plaque pledged that “Neither France nor Europe will ever...
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