The ceremony this Saturday morning in Roubaix in tribute to the victims of the Deportation made an obvious parallel with the war in Ukraine.
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There are moments, painful, when History comes to crash violently into immediate events. The honoring, this Saturday morning, on the place of the Martyrs of the Resistance, of the memory of the hundreds of thousands of deportees of the Second World War, obviously found an echo with the war which is tearing Ukraine apart.
A survivor of the death camps, the indispensable Lili Leignel was able to recall that the survivors, following ” ideals of liberty, fraternity and peace “, took an active part in ” the construction of a new Europe, wanted to be peaceful and united, and campaigned tirelessly so that everywhere in the world human rights and democracy are respected. » Or, « the resurgence of ideologies that carry exclusion, attempts to rewrite history make us today the obligation to continue their fight and to maintain the values that they carried, in a world marked by wars, poverty, inequalities, climate change, which throw thousands of human beings in distress onto the roads of an often dead end and deadly exile. »
« Stillengaged Margaret Connell, deputy mayor of Roubaix in charge of commemorations, it is therefore essential to remember and denounce what the madness of men can cause. The testimonies of deportees recounting the atrocities to which violence, contempt for human dignity, racism, anti-Semitism and xenophobia lead, are essential, as will be the testimonies of Ukrainian victims to denounce the war crimes they have undergone. »
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