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“Not many of us left”: France races to record memories of 1942 Jewish roundup

France Paris Shoah Memorial

Paris, FranceReuters When police came knocking on the door of his eastern Paris home on 16th July, 1942, 15-year-old French Jew Joseph Schwartz was no longer there. Forewarned, he and his father Lejbus had gone into hiding. He had assumed his mother Ruchla and younger brother Paul would be safe – the few roundups of […]