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Culture Q & A: Why The Citizens Of A French Plateau Saved Hundreds During The Holocaust
The windswept plateau of Vivarais-Lignon in south-central France has a history of remarkable acts of sacrifice. For centuries, its residents have taken in refugees. In the 16th century, the largely Protestant plateau sheltered its coreligionists during religious wars. Two centuries later, the population hid Catholic priests during the French Revolution’s anti-clerical Reign of Terror. In…
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Fast Forward Holocaust Denier Banned From France For 40 Years
After getting stopped on her way to France, a convicted Holocaust denier learned she is banned from entering the country for 40 years, The Jewish Chronicle reported. Alison Chabloz took to Gab, a social media platform popular among the so-called “alt-right,” to let her online followers know she had been “banned from entering France until…
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Fast Forward France Promised Not To Harm Palestinian Terrorists Who Killed Jews
(JTA) — France agreed not to target Palestinian terrorists who killed French Jews in Paris in 1982 if they refrain from carrying out further attacks on French soil, a former top spy revealed. Yves Bonnet, who headed the now-defunct DST service in the 1980s, said this in January to a judge investigating the 1982 attack…
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Fast Forward French Official Celebrates His Birthday With A Swastika Cake
A French city official recently turned 40, and in his honor was given a cake decorated with a swastika, Israel National News reported. The Simon Wiesenthal Center reposted the photo of Montpelier councillor Djamel Boumaaz’s cake: white with a graham-cracker-like bottom layer, candied-cherry border and a swastika drawn in the center with black icing. The…
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Fast Forward French Authorities Rescind Ban On Israeli Soccer Fans
(JTA) — Following protests, authorities in eastern France rescinded a ban they had issued forbidding soccer fans from Israel to come to the center of Strasbourg and fly their country’s flag. The prohibitions, which are unusual and provoked vociferous criticism, came in a four-page order Thursday from the head of the Bas-Rhin district office prior…
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Fast Forward Israelis Banned From French City Center — In Order To ‘Prevent’ Anti-Semitism
(JTA) — Citing the risk of anti-Semitic incidents, authorities in eastern France are forbidding soccer fans from Israel to come to the center of Strasbourg and fly their country’s flag. The prohibitions, which are unusual and provoked vociferous criticism, came in a four-page order Thursday from the head of the Bas-Rhin district office prior to…
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Fast Forward France’s Oldest Auschwitz Survivor Dies At 101
PARIS (Reuters) – Henriette Cohen, France’s oldest survivor of Nazi Germany’s Auschwitz concentration camp, has died. She was 101. Cohen stayed silent about the horrors she lived through at the death camp in Poland for four decades before finding the strength to describe it to younger generations. She said it was necessary to speak out…
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Fast Forward Far-Right Cell Planned Attack On Jewish Event In Paris
(JTA) — Five alleged members of a far-right cell — including a teenager — planned to target the main umbrella group of French Jews, according to a French television channel. BFMTV reported Tuesday that one of the targets envisioned by the suspects, who had been arrested between September and May, was the annual dinner of…
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