The AP-HP announced on Thursday, June 30, that it would remove from one of its buildings the name of René Lerich, president of the board of the medical order during the Vichy regime, who “actively contributed to census, condemnation and robberyby Jewish doctors.
“This building bore the name of René Leriche, who, if he was a great surgeon, had been the president of the Council of the National Order of Physicians during the Vichy regime, which especially enforced the professional ban on Jewish doctors, actively contributing to their census. their damnation and plunder– said in the press release of the Public Aid Hospitals of Paris (AP-HP).
This former Brussay hospital building in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, which houses training centers, a genomics platform and will be the headquarters of the future surgery school, is now called the building.Addie Stegg“, on behalf of a urology professor and former president of the Council of Representatives of Jewish Institutions in France (Crif). “More than a symbol. Rediscovered honor. Justified feeAP-HP chief Martin Hirsch is about to step down, tweeted.
Source: Le Figaro
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