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A maligned marker honoring a French Nazi sympathizer is off NYC’s streets — for now

JL;DR SUMMARY Menachem Rosensaft, son of Holocaust survivors and general counsel emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, celebrated the recent removal of a historical marker honoring Nazi collaborator Pierre Laval from New York City's streets. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustNew York CityHolocaust RemembranceNazi CollaboratorsJewish AdvocacyMenachem RosensaftVichy RegimePhilippe PétainHistorical MarkersPierre Laval

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New York City, New York, United States
"Could New York City really be planning to reinstall the plaque honoring Pierre Laval, the Vichy prime minister during World War II who was executed for treason?"
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
"In 2017, following the white supremacist Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, then-Mayor Bill de Blasio tweeted that his administration would remove all hate symbols from city property starting with the Philippe Ptain plaque downtown."
France
"Before they became war criminals responsible for the deaths of more than 75,000 Jews, Laval and Ptain were honored in ticker-tape parades in 1931."

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