More than 70,000 names inscribed on a curved strip of stone installed on a green hill, at the edge of the Roglit forest, 30 km west of Jerusalem: the memorial to the deportation of Jews from France, inaugurated in 1981 at the initiative of Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, presidents of the association of Sons and daughters of Jewish deportees from France (FFDJF), has something to impress.
In alphabetical order, there are the names, first names, dates of birth, convoy numbers, dates of arrest and dates of death of these Jews deported to the Nazi death camps.
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And for many of the descendants of these French Jews, this memorial serves as a place of meditation. "It is not a monument, it is our cemetery, because our parents, our families, died in Auschwitz or Sobibor and they have no grave, so we need a place to meditate", testifies Shlomo Balsam, president of the Israeli association Aloumim of hidden children, at the microphone of France 24.
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