Isidore Aragonès, the local president of CRIF Marseilles-Provence, recalled that “there are a number of people in France who are rarely brought to the fore. Our heroes. Heroes of humanity: the Nation’s Righteous.” Addressing Yvan Beltrami, president of the Association of the Righteous, accompanied by other Righteous, Isidore Arangonès “on behalf of the sons and daughters of the Republic” expressed their “pride, honour and gratitude.”