"Wall of Names" dedicated by Jewish community in Paris

On Sunday, France's Jewish community dedicated the "Wall of Names", a memorial in central Paris identifying 76,000 Jews deported from France during World War II. Former Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, one of 10 experts who compiled the list after gathering information from Gestapo documents and French families, told the gathering that the wall showed the Holocaust had "become part of the public conscience at the level it should be." The stone wall is located at the entrance to the renovated Holocaust Memorial, which is scheduled to be officially opened on Tuesday by the French president Jacques Chirac. "This wall keeps our innermost secrets in its stone and delivers them to those who pass," said former Health Minister Simone Veil, herself a survivor of Auschwitz. A prayer to the dead was read out to the assembled Holocaust survivors and relatives of victims.