France on Wednesday marked the 30th anniversary of former president Jacques Chirac’s landmark 1995 speech in which he acknowledged the French state’s responsibility for the Vel’ d’Hiv roundup, the mass arrest of Jews carried out by French police on 16–17 July 1942. Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne and other officials issued statements honouring the 13,152 people—about 4,000 of them children—who were seized in Paris and its suburbs and handed over to the Nazi occupiers. Only around 800 of those deported survived the Holocaust, making the Vel’ d’Hiv raid one of the darkest episodes of France’s wartime history. Borne said the nation remained “faithful to their memory,” underscoring that remembrance and education are central to combating antisemitism in contemporary France.