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Holocaust survivor urges next generation to remember Drancy
Victor Perahia, freed in 1945 after 21 months in Drancy, speaks to Livry Gargan middle schoolers marking Auschwitz liberation's 75th anniversary. He recounts arrest at age nine, convoy to Auschwitz, and loss of his father. He stresses enduring memory combats denial and preserves victims through testimony.
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Drancy
France
Victor Perahia
Perahia
Auschwitz- Birkenau
Livry Gargan
Auschwitz
Europe
Valérie Malaberti
Malaberti
Bergen Belsen
Berlin
Bergen- Belsen
Drancy Shoah Memorial
Paris
Christophe Ena
THE
Associated Press