A ceremony in memory of 100 French hostages, most of them Jews, shot by Nazi occupation forces on December 15, 1941, was held yesterday at the Auschwitz Memorial in Pere Lachaise Cemetery here. The ceremony was held under the auspices of the Association of French-Jewish Deportees, with former members of non-Jewish resistance movements also taking part.
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