France and the Holocaust: the President of France Speaks out on Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism

Jewish History | by Merv Islip | Volume 23, Issue 6 | November – December 2017

Speaking during a ceremony at the Vel d’Hiv Holocaust memorial monument in Paris, President of France, Emmanuel Macron, confronted the record of French complicity in the Holocaust. Macron acknowledged France’s collaboration with the Nazis and its direct role in the roundup and deportation of Jew...