The chairman of Yad Vashem met in Paris with French President Jacques Chirac. During Wednesday’s meeting at the Elysee Palace, Avner Shalev presented Chirac with a book detailing the names of French non-Jews who had risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust.
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