Annual dinner of Crif Marseille-Provence. Reunion after two years of Covid
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Tribute to Denise Toros-Marter
- Denise Toros-marter receives the Crif medal from the Minister of the Interior Gérald Darmanin (Photo Joël Barcy)
She is 94 spring but still has the same faith. That of bearing witness in the classroom, of passing on the torch to the younger generations. Denise Toros-Marter gave a strong testimony. His family remained there, this body which still bears the scars of the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The text is strong, chiseled What will the future hold in these troubled times? What will become of the memory of all those who have fallen? … It is important for us, the last survivors of the Shoah, that you transmit to your children because you have become, for us, the witnesses of the witnesses and also our transmitters of memory. This so that no one denies, so that no one doubts, so that no one forgets that men, women, children were murdered because they were Jews “.
Denise Toros-Marter
Reintroduce the craving for memory
The annual dinner of the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) Marseille-Provence is a space to send messages to politicians and more specifically to the Minister of the Interior. Bruno Benjamin, the outgoing president, called for the creation “ a specific prosecutor’s office for anti-Semitic crimes “. But during his two mandates he mainly worked to reinstate the desire for memory. ” For Yom HaShoa (the day of memory) we were 15 in 2017, today we are 400 “. Beyond that, actions have multiplied towards young people. ” There have been many intra-community encounters between Muslims, Christians and Jews. Getting to know each other is essential. When we talk, when we live part of the time together, we respect each other “.
Bruno Benjamin
40 young Muslims in Israel
This feeling is shared by Hassen Chalghoumi, the imam of Drancy. It is a long process ” In France and Belgium it is very difficult, we are confronted with Islamism and an extreme left which spread anti-Semitic proposals on social networks “. But there is hope. ” I took 40 young suburban Muslims to Israel. They were able to see how Israeli society lived, the country’s politics. It is one of the means of combating anti-Semitism. Unfortunately there are men like Hassan Iquioussem. Fortunately the Minister of the Interior and of the State took the necessary steps. These men are guardians of this archaic and anti-Semitic mentality that gives us monsters like Merah and Coulibali “.
Hassen Chalghoumi
Declining anti-Semitic acts
The Minister of the Interior came to this evening bringing good news. ” Anti-Semitic acts have dropped by 25% in France and the figure is even higher in Marseille. Everything is not settled… There would be only one aggression that it would be too much but it is an encouragement “.
Gerald Darmanin
Focus on youth
The new president of Crif Marseille-Provence, lawyer Fabienne Bendayan-Chétrit, intends to continue on the path of her predecessor by emphasizing youth. ” I plan to create a commission within the Crif. The support of the future is necessarily our young people. Even today people die only because what Jews “.
Me Fabienne Bendayan-Chetrit
This evening worked like a cement. The audience will have been able to meditate on the quotation from Malraux, taken up by Bruno Benjamin: The future is a present made to us by the past “.
Report Joel BARCY
Slideshow
- Gérald Darmanin surrounded by Marseille Benoît Payan, Mayor of Marseille and Martine Vassal, President of the Bouches-du-Rhône department and the Aix-Marseille Provence metropolis (Photo Joël Barcy)
- Me Fabienne Bendayan-Chétrit, new president of Crif Marseille-Provence
- Gérald Darmanin surrounded by the new president of Crif national yonathan arfi and Bruno Benjamin former president of Crif Marseille-Provence (Photo Joël Barcy) (Photo Joël Barcy)
- From left to right Benoît Payan, Yaël German Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Israel in France, Martine Vassal, Yonathan Arfi, Bruno Benjamin (Photo Joël Barcy)