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How D-Day saved Europe, and my family, from the Nazis

Eighty years ago, an attorney’s French Jewish grandparents were on the run and on the verge of deportation when the Allied forces liberated Paris.

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A mysterious postcard made French author Anne Berest confront her family’s Holocaust story

An award-winning bestseller tackles the tough questions French Jews are grappling with.

Marking 80 years since deportation of French Jews, Macron vows to oppose antisemitism today

“France at that time committed the unforgivable,” Macron said at a speech inaugurating a new Holocaust museum inside a train station in Pithiviers.

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French chief rabbi clashes with fellow communal leaders in debate over France’s Jewish future

St Martin de Vésubie. (Wikimedia Commons)

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French Jewish group raises funds for flooded town that hid Jews during the Holocaust

Police officers guard the scene of the Hyper Cachere terrorist attack in Paris, France on Jan. 10, 2015. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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For anti-Semites in France, police are seen as ‘dirty Jews’

Frida Wattenberg speaking with her brother, Charles Smiétanski, at the Memorial for the Shoah in Paris, France on Jan. 29, 2019. (Courtesy of the Memorial for the Shoah)

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Frida Wattenberg, 95, smuggled Jewish orphans out of Nazi-occupied France

Alain Finkielkraut preparing to answer a question at an appearance in Brussels, Belgium on April 3, 2016. (Cnaan Liphshiz)

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A famed French-Jewish philosopher is afraid to leave his home

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French national rail building Holocaust museum at abandoned station

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Nazi-looted Renoir painting returned to last heir of Jewish art dealer

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