France’s president inaugurated a monument to the 76,000 Jews rounded up in France during the Holocaust. Speaking Tuesday, Jacques Chirac described anti-Semitism as a “perversion that kills” and vowed French support for Israel. The Wall of Names, with writing inscribed on pale stone walls, is part of a renovated Holocaust memorial in Paris’ Jewish quarter that has been transformed from an archive center and expanded.
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