French President Emmanuel Macron visits the newly inaugurated Shoah memorial at the former Pithiviers' train station with Shoah survivor Marcel Sztejnberg, as part of a ceremony commemorating the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup, in Pithiviers, France, July 17, 2022. Christophe Petit Tesson/Pool via REUTERS
PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron warned against anti-Semitism and historical revisionism on Sunday as he commemorated victims of the Holocaust on the 80th anniversary of the Vel d'Hiv roundup of Jewish families.
On July 16-17, 1942, around 13,000 people were taken to the Winter Velodrome, the Vel d'Hiv, in Paris before being sent on to concentration camps across Europe. It was the largest mass detention of Jewish people by French police in collaboration with the Nazi German occupiers.
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