(17 Jul 2022)
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Pithiviers - 17 July 2022
1. Wide shot with pan of board inside the Shoa memorial at Pithiviers train station
2. Medium of exhibit "The beginnings of German occupation," pan to black and white photos
3. Wide shot with of memorial and title "Train stations, tragic sites and sites of hope",  pan to map of Europe with videos"
4. Various of interactive Shoa memorial with videos and photos
5. French President Emmanuel Macron delivering speech, UPSOUND (French): "But the 'odious antisemitism', as Zola said, is here, prowling, always persistent."
6. SOUNDBITE (French) Rachel Khan, vox pop:
"Obviously from a personal point of view, I am very moved as the granddaughter of a deportee because my grandfather left in June 1942 from this station. I was lucky enough to get to know him, he came back in May 1945, but it's true that having everyone gathered here, elected officials, representatives of the Republic, prefects, the President of the Republic himself and then the entire population, this is very, very emotional for me, this recognition."
7. SOUNDBITE (French) Evelyne Gougenheim, Bureau of Vigilance Against Antisemitism:
"I think it's a speech that first of all puts things in perspective, and then gives us courage. He gave us some courage because it is true that after the recent elections, given the results, we are worried. So he said he was going to fight, he promised us that, and we too will continue to fight."
8. Railway tracks
STORYLINE:
French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday decried Nazi-collaborator predecessors and rising antisemitism, vigorously vowing to stamp out Holocaust denial as he paid homage to thousands of French children sent to death camps 80 years ago.
Family by family, house by house, French police rounded up 13,000 people on two terrifying days in July 1942, wresting children from their mothers' arms and dispatching everyone to Nazi camps.
For the dwindling number of survivors of France's wartime crimes, a series of commemoration ceremonies on Sunday were especially important.
At a time of rising antisemitism and far-right discourse sugarcoating France's role in the Holocaust, they worry that history's lessons are being forgotten.
A week of ceremonies marking 80 years since the Vel d'Hiv police roundup on July 16-17, 1942, culminated Sunday with an event led by Macron.
"We will continue to teach against ignorance. We will continue to cry against indifference," Macron said. "And we will fight, I promise you, at every dawn, because France's story is written by a combat of resistance and justice that will never be extinguished."
He denounced French leaders for their role in the Holocaust and the Vel d'Hiv raids, among the most shameful acts undertaken by France during World War II, and among the darkest moments in its history.
Over those two days, police herded 13,152 people — including 4,115 children — into the Winter Velodrome of Paris, known as the Vel d'Hiv, before they were sent on to Nazi camps.
It was the biggest such roundup in western Europe. The children were separated from their families; very few survived.
On Sunday, Macron visited a site in Pithiviers south of Paris where police sent families after the Vel d'Hiv roundup, before sending them on to camps.
A new memorial site honoring the deportees was inaugurated, including a plaque that reads: "Let us never forget."
The president urged vigilance. "We are not finished with antisemitism, and we must lucidly face that fact."
Jewish communities are increasingly worried about rising antisemitism in Europe.
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