Ceremonies were held in Paris to mark the 60th anniversary of a roundup of Jews in France. On July 16-17, 1942, French officials herded 13,152 Jews into the Velodrome d’Hiver, a Paris cycling stadium from which they were deported to Nazi death camps.
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