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Published on 16 April 2004

IZIEU ROUND-UP OF JEWISH CHILDREN COMMEMORATED

Some 200 people commemorated the 60th anniversary of the round-up by the Nazi secret police of 44 Jewish children who sought refuge in Izieu (South East of France). All were deported to the Auschwitz extermination camp.


The names of the young victims were read aloud by Italian pupils from Nonantola, an Italian village where Jewish children from Yugoslavia were hidden in 1943.

"The duty to remember takes its full meaning in Izieu; we do have the moral obligation to teach the young generations so that mankind remains forever preserved from such atrocities," said the president of the Regional Council, Socialist Jean-Jack Queyranne.

"The recall of the true face of the occupation must lead each and everyone of us to understand what was really at stake in the struggle leading to the liberation of our territory and to the defeat of a criminal and totalitarian ideology," said the cabinet Minister of War Veterans Hamlaoui Mekachera.

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