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FILE - Victor Perahia, who was interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris, Thursday Jan. 30, 2020. Victor Perahia, the president of the French Union of Auschwitz Deportees and a Holocaust survivor, has died. He was 91. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

Victor Perahia, Holocaust survivor and president of French Union of Auschwitz Deportees, dies at 91

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In this photo taken on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020, Victor Perahia, who was interned as a child in the Drancy camp and deported to Bergen-Belsen speaks to students during a workshop dedicated to the Holocaust remembrance at the Drancy Shoah memorial, outside Paris. French Holocaust survivor Victor Perahia was 9 when his family was seized by the Nazis, but couldn't bear to speak about what happened for 40-years, but is now telling his story to schoolchildren at Drancy, backdropped by the buildings that once imprisoned him. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena)

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