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Thonon-les-Bains
Monument national aux Justes
On November 2, 1997, a little more than two years after President Jacques Chirac's speech in memory of the round-up at the "Vél d'Hiv", a national monument was inaugurated at Thonon-les-Bains in honor of the Righteous of France, at the initiative of the Consistory of France and the French Association for Homage to the Righteous Among Nations. In a clearing, the symbol of light and Good, a monument was put up in a part the Ripaille Forest that had been acquired by the town of Thonon.
Nicolas Moscovitz (of a Thonon family), the sculptor that designed and created the monument, says of it: "I made a stylized heart held by three Righteous standing on the globe. The heart, made... Read more
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Every year on Sunday July 16 (or the following Sunday) is a national ceremony.
- Monument
- Rescue
- Civil resistance
- Deportation
- Haute-Savoie
- Genocide
On November 2, 1997, a little more than two years after President Jacques Chirac's speech in memory of the round-up at the "Vél d'Hiv", a national monument was inaugurated at Thonon-les-Bains in honor of the Righteous of France, at the initiative of the Consistory of France and the French Association for Homage to the Righteous Among Nations. In a clearing, the symbol of light and Good, a monument was put up in a part the Ripaille Forest that had been acquired by the town of Thonon.
Nicolas Moscovitz (of a Thonon family), the sculptor that designed and created the monument, says of it: "I made a stylized heart held by three Righteous standing on the globe. The heart, made of brass, reflects like a mirror onto the Righteous. In the foreground, three other, smaller, characters represent the generations that the Righteous saved."
Twenty years later, in 2017, the French Association for Homage to the Righteous and to the Saviors of Life, with an audience of officials both civil and religious, renewed the homage to the Righteous, adding "Saviors of Life", to wit, the Jews and non-Jews who saved Jews and Gypsies who were threatened with annililation.