For 24 hours, deportees, children, grandchildren of deportees, public figures and many anonymous people, followed one another on the forecourt of the Shoah Memorial in Paris to read continuously, day and night, the names of every Jewish person deported from France.
This year, the names of the Jews of France deported by convoys 74 to 85, of the Jews who died in internment camps in France, of the Jews executed as resistance fighters, as hostages or summarily executed (lists 90 and 91) and of the Jews deported by convoys 1 to 21 were read out, one by one.
In France, 76,000 Jews including 11,400 children were deported to death camps.
Read the inaugural speech of François Heilbronn, vice-president of the Shoah Memorial
