"Wall of Names" in Paris to remember 76,000 victims of the Shoah

A new monument in Paris' Jewish quarter pays tribute to the 76,000 French Jews rounded up during the Holocaust and sent to Nazi death camps with names engraved on pale stone walls. The "Wall of Names," shown to journalists ahead of its inauguration by President Jacques Chirac next week, is part of a renovated Holocaust memorial. Out of the 76,000 names mentioned, only 2,500 people survived. Ten experts spent 30 months gathering information from Gestapo documents and from French families to come up with the list. Under columns for each year of the deportations, the engravings list the victims alphabetically and include their dates of birth. Some unidentified victims are referred to simply as "a child." The wall is meant to remind visitors of the millions of individual tragedies in the Holocaust.