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France's Mitterand
Denounces Vichy
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Lag B'Omer
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Paris (JTA) — In a state-
ment long called for by
French Jews and World War
II Resistance fighters, Fren-
ch President Francois Mit-
terrand has denounced the
"extermination of the Jews
of France during the Vichy
regime," saying that
"justice starts with remem-
brance against the forces of
forgetfulness."
Mr. Mitterrand, who had
been sharply chided for
refusing to say modern-day
France should apologize for
the evils of the wartime
Vichy regime, made his
remarks in a statement. It
was read at a ceremony
commemorating the depor-
tation to Auschwitz of 44
Jewish children and seven
adults from the village of
Izieu.
"The children of Izieu are
the very symbol of innocence
assassinated, the very sym-
bol of all the Jews of France
who were exterminated
under the Vichy regime,"
Mr. Mitterrand said. "The
pain of the Jewish commun-
ity is shared by the repub-
lic."
Some 250 people, mainly
Jewish activists led by Fren-
ch Nazi- hunter Serge
Klarsfeld, gathered in the
southeastern French village
to commemorate the depor-
tations, which actually took
place April 6, 1944.
Mr. Klarsfeld, whose
father died in Auschwitz,
wrote a book, The Children
of Izieu: A Jewish Tragedy,
published in 1984, which
tells the story of the children
and how they had come
there. The book contains
photographs, letters, birth
certificates and accounts of
everyday life in the home.
The children were
deported first to the French
internment camp at Drancy
and from there to Auschwitz.
The book was used as
testimony in the war crimes
trial of Klaus Barbie.
In his statement, Mr. Mit-
terrand said that the com-
memoration "bears witness"
and "recalls where is crime
and where virtue."
The president then com-
mitted himself to seeing to it
that the house in Izieu would
be turned into a museum, to
be opened next year.
Jewish officials here ex-
pressed satisfaction with the
president's remarks.
But some voiced criticism
that the highest French au-
thority did not state that the
first duty of justice is to
judge those responsible for
the deportation of the Jews. (
Rene Bousquet and
Maurice Papon, two high- c;
ranking French officials of
the Vichy regime, remain
indicted but not tried for
crimes against humanity.
There are no signs that the
two men, both 80, will be
tried in the near future.
Information leaked to the
media a year ago indicated
that close advisers of Mr.
Mitterrand — some say Mr.
Mitterrand himself —are
opposed to those trials be-
cause they could prove
"harmful to the peace."
Still, Mr. Mitterrand, bow-
ing under heavy pressure
from the Jewish community
and a large array of leading
French intellectual figures,
decided several months ago
to name July 16 a national
day of remembrance for the
Jews deported from France
by Vichy.
It was on July 16, 1942,
that the Vichy police round-
ed up thousands of Jews and
held them in the Paris cycl-
ing stadium called the
Velodrome d'Hiver.
From there they were
taken to Drancy and then
deported to Auschwitz. Only
a few individuals survived.
Quake, Hailstorm
Strike Israel
Tel Aviv (JTA) — A.1;. earth
tremor measuring a low 3.6
on the Richter scale was felt
in parts of Galilee early Sat-
urday morning but caused
no damage.
Experts said the epicenter
of the tremor was in the
Hula Valley region, along
the fault line of the Syrian-
African rift, which runs from
Turkey to East Africa.
But while the tremor had
little effect in Galilee, an
unusual hailstorm swept
over the nearby Golan
Heights, causing damage to
produce in orchards.
Local farmers said large
hailstones woke them dur-
ing the night and wrecked a
significant amount of fruit
just beginning to grow.
Eli Malka, a farmer of
Moshav Sha'al and chair-
man of the Golan Settlers
Committee, estimated that
80 percent of his nectarine
crop had been destroyed by
the hailstorm.