Hollande opens new memorial centre

22 Sep, 2012

France has finally come to terms with its role in the deportation of thousands of Jews to Nazi death camps, President Francois Hollande said Friday as he inaugurated a new Holocaust memorial centre. "Now our duty is to shape the spirit of the generations to come," Hollande said in a speech at the opening of a major new educational centre next to the site of the infamous Drancy transit camp.

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