French President Jacques Chirac honored an Auschwitz survivor as part of ceremonies marking the end of World War II in Europe. Henry Bulkawko was named grand officer of the Legion d’Honneur on Sunday. Bulkawko, 86, was deported to Auschwitz in 1942 and today is president of the Union of Deportees to Auschwitz and vice president of CRIF, the umbrella organization of secular French Jewish organizations.
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