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A SPIRITUAL WEEKEND WITH RABBI ZALMAN M. SCHACHTER-SHALOMI

Plaque Unveiled
In Vichy

Paris (JTA) — A plaque
was unveiled at the site of
the offices of the Vichy
government, in memory of
the Jews who were deported
50 years ago from unoc-
cupied France.
*)- Paris lawyer and Nazi-
hunter Serge Klarsfeld,
president of the Sons and
Daughters of Jews Deported
from France, affixed the
memorial plaque at the en-
trance of the Hotel du Parc,
the wartime headquarters of
Vichy leaders Marshal
Philippe Petain and Pierre
Laval.
The memorial at Vichy, a
city in central France, nor-
thwest of Lyon, extends
thanks to the French
population and Catholic and
Protestant church au-
thorities who protested the
H deportations.
The deported Jews were
non-French citizens who had
gathered in the so-called
"Free Zone," trying to
escape the Nazis in other
countries. They had thought
they might be safe in
France.
The Jews were ordered ar-
rested and deported by Rene
Bousquet, then secretary-
general of the Vichy police.
The roundup of the non-
French Jews occurred six
weeks after thousands of
Jews in the Paris area were
assembled, on July 16, 1942,
and taken to a large winter
cycling stadium known as
the Velodrome d'Hiver.
On Aug. 26, 1942, Mr.
Bousquet sent a letter to the
prefects, or administrators,
of the Free Zone, in which he
wrote, "The head of the
government (Pierre Laval)
demands that you personally
oversee the measures
against the foreign Jews.
"You shall not hesitate.
You shall break any
resistance you encounter in
the local population and you
shall report all officials
whose indiscretion, passivity
or ill will have made your
task more difficult."
When protests were lev-
eled by American organiza-
tions —there was a U.S.
Embassy in Vichy — Mr. Pe-
tain replied: "All this is
regrettable, but there is
nothing I can do."
Mr. Laval said the arrests
were "unavoidable" and had
been ordered on his own in-
itiative.
Vichy France was the only
European government not
under Nazi occupation
0 which independently
deported Jews to death
camps.

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Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi is a living bridge between the
Hassidic lineage of the Baal Shem Tov and today's Jewish renewal. He is
a visionary and charismatic teacher, a modern day mystic and a Kabbalist
who teaches us to delve into the hidden treasures of tradition to find
meaning and direction in our lives.

Rabbi Schachter-Shalomi is Professor Emeritus at Temple University and
Founder of Spiritual Eldering Project, P'nai Or, in Philadelphia.
He is an author and the leader of seminars in "From Aging to Sage-ing."

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