France commemorates the Vel d’Hiv roundup after a Paris plaque honoring rescuers is vandalized

PARIS (AP) — France on Sunday commemorated the Vel d’Hiv roundup, a mass arrest of Jews by French police in 1942, one of the most shameful acts undertaken by the country’s wartime government. French police rounded up thousands of Jews over two days in July 1942, wresting children from their mothers...

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