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s (JTA) — France's Jews
hailed President Fran-
i.tterrand's move to
. agurate an annual day of
„clembrance to mourn
se Jews who were
cuted or deported from
ce to Nazi death camps
L ag the Holocaust.
4. Mitterrand caused an
i=y. in July when he said
present French state
4 not apologize for the
ons of the wartime pro-
Vichy regime.
it Mr. Mitterrand
,11ged his stance and
- Lied a decree declaring
'..fy 16 as a "National
imemoration Day of the
-ist and Anti-Semitic
Vsecutions Perpetrated
ring the De Facto Au-
ority of the So-Called
overnment of the French
.4,;e' (1940-1944)."
date was chosen to
the day in 1942 of the
mass roundup of Jews
iris by French police,
in as the "Vel d'Hiv
e
July 16, 1942, the Jews
41. rounded up and taken
The winter cycling
adium called the
Plodrome d'Hiver.
Jean Kahn, head of CRIF,
umbrella group repre-
enting French Jewish
rganizations, said Mitter-
and "has taken into ac-
'imt the wish of the French
caeople not to forget what has
oecome the symbol of the ar-
, st of French Jews, the Vel
l-ce
A'Hiv roundup. It is some-
- hing we have been asking
or many years."
The decree says that a
iionument will be erected in
Paris on the location of the
Vel d'Hiv, where the
ounded-up Jews were held
Tarisoners before they were
taken to the Drancy concen-
ration camp in a northern
burb of Paris.
Some 13,000 Jews, men,
women and children includ-
ed, were arrested during
those roundups. Almost all
ere deported to Auschwitz
and gassed upon arrival.
The Vel d'Hiv was torn
down in the 1960s, and an of-
fice building for the Ministry
of Interior was built there
instead.
The French president's
decree also says that a pla-
ue will be affixed in Izieu,
t near Lyon, where over 40
Jewish children stayed in
c hiding until they were
.discovered by SS officer
Klaus Barbie.
The "butcher of Lyon," as
Barbie was known, learned
about the Jews from an in-
former and arrested the
children. They were later
deported and killed.
Mr. Mitterrand's repeated
refusal to officially acknowl-
edge that France should
take some responsibility for
the deaths of tens of
thousands of Jews at the
hands of the wartime Vichy
regime has long been a bone
of contention in the Jewish
community.
The debate turned even
more bitter last fall when
Mr. Mitterrand laid a
wreath on the grave of Mar-
shal Philippe Petain on Nov.
11, the armistice day of
World War I.
While Mr. Petain is
celebrated as a war hero for
his role in World War I, he is
also vilified by Jews for col-
laborating with the Nazis in
World War II.
In Mr. Mitterrand's own
ranks, many voiced their
disapproval of the presi-
dent's attitude.
"One cannot dissociate the
victor of Verdun from the
traitor of Vichy," said
various political leaders,
protesting against the tradi-
tion initiated by Mr. Mitter-
rand to lay a wreath on Mr.
Petain's tomb every year.
Mr. Mitterrand said at the
time he would do something
to correct the situation.
Observers said the newly
announced Commemoration
Day appears to be Mitter-
rand's answer to the critics.
Muslim Leader
Has Died
Jerusalem (JTA) — Sheik
Sa'ad a-Din al-Alami, the
senior Moslem religious
leader in the West Bank and
east Jerusalem, died last
weekend at his home in
Jerusalem at the age of 82.
The cause of death was heart
failure.
Sheik al-Alami was mufti,
or senior Islamic clergyman,
since 1954, when he was ap-
pointed to the post by the
Jordanian authorities.
Since 1981, al-Alami was
also head of the Supreme
Moslem Council, which is
responsible for the religious
affairs of all Moslems in the
administered territories;
and for the religious trust
properties — the Waqf —
that are worth millions of
dollars.
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