[1] The memorial is in the 4th arrondissement of Paris, in the Marais district, which had a large Jewish population at the beginning of World War II.

They will lead you to the highest pinnacle of justice and truth.Several walls that make a passageway to the building list the names of the approximately 76,000 French Jews who were deported and murdered by the Nazis.

[2] The crypt predates the Mémorial de la Shoah; in 1957, the ashes of victims from the different death camps and the Warsaw Ghetto were buried in dirt from Israel.

[4] Since 1963, the Museum Memorial of Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) has awarded the title "Righteous Among the Nations" to non-Jewish people who helped save Jews during the war.

[5] French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the vandalism as "odious anti-Semitism", and Paris authorities filed a criminal complaint.