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1. Various of Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor addressing school children
2. Various of Perahia meeting children after talk and posing for photographs at Holocaust memorial
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Victor Perahia, the president of the French Union of Auschwitz Deportees and a Holocaust survivor, has died.
He was 91.
Perahia, who was deported as a child to the Nazi death camp of Bergen-Belsen, died on Monday in the eastern Paris suburb of Saint-Mande, the Union of Auschwitz Deportees said in a statement.
The cause of death wasn’t disclosed.
The union hailed Perahia, as “one of its eminent figures, who worked with great humanity and determination to preserve the memory of the Shoah” for other generations.
As a child survivor of the Holocaust, the ever present “racism and antisemitism tormented him and fueled his strength to awaken minds,” French President Emmanuel Macron said in a statement.
He added: “As a lesson for future generations, he considered human cruelty to be limitless and the duty to fight without fear against all forms of intolerance and all attacks on basic human rights."
Perahia’s death comes four months before the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp.
Six million European Jews and people from other minorities were killed there and in other extermination camps across Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust.
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