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(IsraelNN.com) French Prime Minister François Fillon urged French youth to always remember the ''indelible guilt'' of the French people who collaborated with the Nazis, during a ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the roundup of thousands of Jews in the Vel d’Hiv, or Winter Velodrome, in 1942.

"We will never be healed of the Holocaust," he said Sunday in a speech at the Square of Jewish Martyrs in Paris. The annual ceremony was attended by Holocaust victims, political personalities and youths.

Addressing the youth, Fillon said: "65 years ago, members of the Vichy government, civil servant collaborators, stained their hands with a full and indelible guilt. Their guilt is not yours, their shame is not yours but the horror of their acts must become yours, a disgust which must move your hearts as it moved ours."