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Accused Killers of French Jewish Holocaust Survivor Mireille Knoll Will Face Trial on Antisemitic Murder Charges
by Staff
May 15, 2020

The two men accused of the brutal murder of a French Jewish Holocaust survivor in her Paris apartment in 2018 are to face trial on charges of homicide aggravated by antisemitism…The murder of Knoll — a survivor of the July 1942 Vel d’Hiv roundup of French Jews by the Nazis and their French collaborators — caused an uproar in France. Knoll’s killing came less than one year after the murder of another Jewish woman, 65-year-old Sarah Halimi, by one of her neighbors in a public housing project in eastern Paris. READ MORE