Vel'd'Hiv - Joseph Weismann, "July 16, 1942, began a loop until the end attached"

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A child who is the movie "The Raid" inspired survive one of the few Vel'd'Hiv. 83, the medal of the refugees was excellent.

"With this medal, the loop began July 16, 1942 is finally over., This is my confession, it all happened." 83 years old, Joseph Weismann, 83, one of the few survivors of the Vel'd'Hiv raid in July 1942, he was awarded the medal Sunday Mans fugitives who denied him for years. He said that France finally under the "full" responsibility for the deportation of 13,000 Jews in Paris. He fled at the age of 11 years in the field of Beaune-la-Rolande (Loiret), where he was taken after three days in the Velodrome d'Hiver Joseph Weismann has so far failed to reach an agreement, the case was not within the time falling order of the criteria mentioned 7th February 1959. Scroll benefits "extraordinary", the medal was presented to him in the morning and was appointed Minister Sarthe Stéphane Le Foll at Le Mans, where he lives today in memory of the victims of racist crimes of the French state.

"This medal was not issued, which is a mixture of shame, guilt, and shame on the French" this page in its history, says Joseph Weismann. It was not until 1995, Jacques Chirac that France recognizes its responsibility in the deportation of Jews.

"This is not good for the Jews of today"

16 and 17 July 1942 the police in Vichy 13,152 people, including more than 4,000 children in the most massive Summary of the Jews in France. "I was 11 years old his father, his mother, his two sisters, rue des Abbesses in the 18th," Mr. Weismann recalls, including (...)

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