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No More V-e Day Celebrations Angers French Jewish Community

May 13, 1975
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Jewish organizations in France are enraged with President Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s announcement that France, in an effort to promote European solidarity, will no longer celebrate the Allied victory over Nazi Germany. The veterans section of the League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism (LICA), declared that the commemorations are far from being a display of hatred; rather, they remind the younger generation that the repetition of such atrocities must be prevented, A spokesman for the Movement Against Racism and Anti-Semitism and for Peace (MRAP) stated, “We cannot build a democratic Europe today by forgetting Nazism and the sacrifices we made to destroy it.”

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