(30 Apr 1995) T/I: 11:07:11
Survivors and descendants of those french Jews who were
deported to Germany during the Nazi occupation (from June 1940 -
August 1944) attended a special memorial service on Sunday (30/4)
in Paris. Health Minister Simone Veil, who was deported as a young girl to Auschwitz, remembered her parents who died at the camp. Paris Mayor and conservative Presidential candidate Jacques Chirac placed a wreath at the tomb of the "Unknown Jewish Martyr". French and American veterans who liberated the camp also attended the service.
SHOWS
PARIS, 30/4
0:00 Representatives of french society in parade
0:05 parade featuring women with flags
0:16 ls of Jewish memorial
0:20 ms of jewish man walking towards memorial carrying flag
0:27 Simone Veil, social affairs minister, jacques chirac and
other french dignatories walking towards memorial
0:33 cutaway people holding urns
0:36 veil lighting torches
0:41 Chirac lays wreath
0:52 homosexual group laying wreath
0:56 flags featuring pink triangle, symbol of homosexual contigent
amongst french deportees
1:00 veil and ministers listen to jewish lament
1:06 Chirac listening intently
1:10 ENDS
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