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Photos by By Benoît Prieur - Own work, CC0. "In remembrance of the Jews rounded up by the Gestapo on 9 February 1943 at the premises of the Fédération des Sociétés Juives de France and the Aid Committee for the Refugees, 12 Rue Sainte Catherine, Lyon 1: 86 people were arrested and 80 were deported of which 3 survived." For more information, please see https://tinyurl.com/588arya2https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49822695