French PM urges youth to remember Holocaust

The French prime minister urged France's young to remember the horrors of the Holocaust in a speech Sunday.

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Monday, 23.07.2007.

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French PM urges youth to remember Holocaust

On those July 1942 days, 13,152 Jews were rounded up in the Paris region, and 8,160—mostly children—were held at the stadium before being sent to Nazi death camps.

"It is by recognizing fully the lights and shadows of the past that the nation learns and grows," Fillon told an audience of hundreds.

In all, about 75,000 Jews were deported from France to Nazi concentration camps during the war. Fewer than 3,000 survived.

Leon Fellmann, 83, was one of the survivors who attended Sunday's ceremony. He said he was 17 when he and his 36-year-old mother were sent to the Velodrome d'Hiver. "I knew that we were done for," he said.

Fellmann said his mother urged him to try to escape. As they were being moved from the stadium to the first in a series of vehicles that would take the deportees to the death camps, Fellmann said he broke through a police cordon and ran to freedom.

Fellmann was active in the French Resistance through the end of the war. He never saw his mother again.

Patricia Anisten, the daughter of a survivor, said it was crucial to continue to mark the anniversary of the deportations "to show every year what happened at the site to make everyone aware that what happened here 65 years ago was very serious; it must not happen again."

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