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Speech by Robert Mizrahi:
" If humans continue to be a wolf to man,
our planet will be a Paradise Lost" ...
Robert Mizrahi:
- "Let me say that Mitterrand has declared the ceremony in January 1993 to commemorate the roundup of the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris July 16, 1942, during which 13,152 Jews including 4115 children aged 1 month to 15 years were arrested, herded and deported to Auschwitz to be destroyed. A recent film recounted the drama.
Recall also that during the ceremony July 16, 1995, Jacques Chirac acknowledged France's responsibility in the extermination of Jews living on its soil during this dark period of 1940-1945.
Since July 1993, I attended the ceremony in Liverpool, my hometown, where my parents were arrested in 1944 by the French Gestapo, and exterminated in the camps of death, Marseille where my younger brother and myself have been saved by the righteous. Just like the family
Vigué which, in your presence and under your leadership, Madam Mayor, the Consul of Israel Shmuel Sivan and myself have given June 10 last, "the Medal of the Righteous Among the Nations" the State of Israel.
Today I came here as Honorary Chairman of CRIF Marseille-Provence, to intervene, at his request, instead of its new President Michèle Teboul, but I must say, as friend Alain Chouraqui and Sidney will receive earlier the insignia of the National Order of the Legion of Honor.
the night of 1 to 2 September 1943, a few steps, so to speak, of this beautiful city of Aix en Provence, 2500 Jewish men, women, children, old men, left this place in sealed wagons to be exterminated in the death camps in Poland. "
-" So how can we forget these words written by Pastor Manen "Righteous Among the Nations" Memory of the Camp, who tried to save some of them despite the risks.
I quote:
" What was particularly painful to see was the sight of small children because of strict orders were given in the last minute like that all over 2 years were required to leave with their parents ...
Children toddlers, stumbling with fatigue during the night and into the cold, crying from hunger, clinging miserably to get their parents to wear .... poor little guys 5 or 6 years trying valiantly to bring a backpack for their size ... then falling asleep and rolling on the ground themselves and their packages ... shivering in the night dew ... "
stop there which also includes this quote a dozen lines, indicating that the train is gone, we know where, alas, and with this cry of pain Pasteur Manen:" It is my that you did .
How not to be seized by an intense emotion while listening to these few lines written in his diary of this man with a big heart?
Yet! That is that for some 6 million Jews exterminated, 66 years later, this does not appear to them enough! Anti-Zionism
new coat of anti-Semitism spreads again hatred.
And in parades, for several years, they shout "Death to Jews" without émeuve at all those who parade including some elected officials who come here seeking an electorate.
Nazi propaganda was recovered and extensively developed by means current communication: television, internet, mobiles.
And the incessant flow of information does not leave, a large majority, the time of analysis.
Also, at places where a memorial is built, with the pugnacity its president, Alain Chouraqui and all members of its board, with the support of local and state, the two words added to "Memorial Camp des Milles" two words "Memory and Education" seem to me absolutely indispensable.
"Memory" but most certainly "Education", so that the younger generation understand that:
" if Man continues to be a wolf to man, our planet will be a Paradise Lost."
Thank you. "
Robert Mizrahi,
Honorary Chairman of CRIF Marseille-Provence
The Wagon memory-Les Milles.
Sunday, July 18, 2010.
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