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Valerie LEROUX

80 Years On, Macron Leads Tribute To Victims Of Nazi Raid On Jewish Orphanage

A Jewish orphanage in France was seen as a sanctuary (Credit: AFP)

French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday marked 80 years since Nazi forces raided a Jewish orphanage in the southeast of France and sent almost all its occupants to extermination camps.

The event is among the first of a sequence of ceremonies Macron will lead this year to mark eight decades since the penultimate year of World War II that in summer 1944 saw D-Day followed by the liberation of Paris from Nazi occupation.

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