LONGTERM CARE SOUTHFIELD Nursing & Home Health Care Insurance A FAMILY AFFAIR call SEYMOUR COLLEN 398-2975 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. 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