"#MenachemRosensaft was pleasantly surprised this week to learn that a historical marker honoring a #Nazi #collaborator that has been a bane of his existence for years had been removed.
Then panic set in: Could #NewYorkCity really be planning to reinstall the plaque honoring #PierreLaval, the #Vichy prime minister during #WorldWarII who was executed for treason?
“It’s one thing of making a decision to remove something,” #Rosensaft told the #Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “It’s quite another to make a conscious decision, of doing the work in order to replace it and put it back.”
For years, Rosensaft — general counsel emeritus of the #WorldJewishCongress and the son of #Holocaust survivors — has lobbied against the plaques honoring #Laval and #PhilippePétain, hero of the #French army during #WorldWarI and later head collaborator with the Nazi regime. They are two of 206 names embedded on a half-mile stretch of #LowerBroadway known as the “#CanyonofHeroes.”
