“In the months following his return from the camps, my father had started to speak, until he was told that it was better to be silent,” said the Prime Minister. >
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Elisabeth Borne called to “fight anti -Semitism with all our strength” Monday, February 13, during the annual CRIF dinner, where she spoke of her family history and in particular her father’s deportation to Auschwitz.
“There are dates, which mark a destiny. For my father, but in reality for my whole family, it is December 25, 1943,” said the Prime Minister whose father, of Jewish confession, been deported to Auschwitz. Surviving, he ended his days in 1972, when his daughter was eleven years old.
“That day, with my grandfather and my uncles, he was arrested by the Gestapo. Then it was the sealed wagons, the orders, the blows, the humiliations. Drancy, Auschwitz. They were 1250 at Departure. Six returned, “said Ms. Borne, who was the guest of honor of this traditional meeting of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF).
Among the survivors, “some have managed to keep the taste for hope and faith in life. Others not. I only know it too well,” she continued.
She also said that “in the months following her return from the camps, [her] father had started to speak, until he was told that it was better to be silent”.
“Some wanted to put a screed of silence on the past,” she said, adding that what had “passed there”, her father had “written in two letters”.
In front of nearly a thousand guests (politicians, ambassadors, religious, trade unionists, artists, etc.) gathered at the Carrousel du Louvre in Paris, La Cheffe du Government called to “fight, with all our strengths, the ‘Anti -Semitism, wherever he shows himself, wherever he strikes, wherever he hides “.
slight decline in the number of anti -Semitic facts in 2022
M terminal recalled his wish “that each pupil of France” makes “at least a visit to a place of memory during their schooling”, one of the measures of the plan Against racism, anti -Semitism and the linked discrimination it presented three weeks ago.
She also indicated that “during the year 2022, the number of anti -Semitic facts fell more than a quarter compared to 2021”. An allusion to the statement published recently by the CRIF, from data from the Jewish Community Protection Service (SPCJ).
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“These are progress”, she stressed, while calling for “continuing to act” . The Prime Minister finally recalled the measures helping the victims to file a complaint, and argued for the implementation of a “single device, capable of ensuring both the withdrawal of the content [online hateful, n.d.l.r.] illicit then their judicial treatment “.
For his part, the president of CRIF, Yonathan Arfi recalled the role of education in the fight “against hatred”. “Anti-Semitism also takes new faces,” he said, citing in particular “Islamism”, the “conspiratorial discourse”, the “Haine of Israel”. For him, the company has, not “an obligation of means but rather an obligation of results”.