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Holocaust Survivors Mark 70th Anniversary of France Deportation at Ceremony in Drancy, Paris

A ceremony has been held in the Paris suburb of Drancy to mark the 70th anniversary of the deportation of Jews from the area during the Holocaust. Among them was Yvette Levy who was deported from Drancy at the age of 15 but survived and managed to return home. 86-year old Holocaust survivor Yvette Levy: "With a lot of emotion, I think about the lives that were broken, those whose destinies that were crushed, smiles that are gone and whose only misfortune was to be Jewish." Eve Penso, whose uncle and two cousins perished in the Holocaust stressed the importance of such ceremonies to keep memories alive. Paris resident Eve Penso: "We need to be here so we don't forget and we need to be here to reflect, we must be here, we must tell our children. I am trying to teach my children about the duty of keeping the memory alive." On July 16, 1942 alone over 13,000 Jews were rounded up in the Paris region for deportation to Nazi death camps. In all, about 75,000 Jews were deported from France to Nazi concentration camps during World War II, and only 2,500 survived.