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| Europe’s ‘Tormented History’ Drives an Ambitious Macron Protégé | Europe’s ‘Tormented History’ Drives an Ambitious Macron Protégé |
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| On a recent visit to Kyiv, Clément Beaune, the French transportation minister, stopped off in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa to pay homage to his Jewish forebears who fled pogroms for France around 1910, only to be deported by French authorities to Auschwitz in 1944 and murdered there by the Nazis. | On a recent visit to Kyiv, Clément Beaune, the French transportation minister, stopped off in the Ukrainian port city of Odesa to pay homage to his Jewish forebears who fled pogroms for France around 1910, only to be deported by French authorities to Auschwitz in 1944 and murdered there by the Nazis. |
| This was scarcely business as usual for a minister whose habitual obligations include dealing with rail strikes and airport meltdowns. But Mr. Beaune, 42, has earned a reputation as an iconoclast driven by personal conviction, chief among them a passionate identification with the idea of a united Europe. | This was scarcely business as usual for a minister whose habitual obligations include dealing with rail strikes and airport meltdowns. But Mr. Beaune, 42, has earned a reputation as an iconoclast driven by personal conviction, chief among them a passionate identification with the idea of a united Europe. |
| “I have a small piece of this tormented history in me, and that is the history of all Europeans,” Mr. Beaune, a man of boyish face, candid gaze and artfully unkempt beard, said in an interview. “We are a continent of people, families and nations torn apart. We must recall that the European Union is a daily miracle.” | “I have a small piece of this tormented history in me, and that is the history of all Europeans,” Mr. Beaune, a man of boyish face, candid gaze and artfully unkempt beard, said in an interview. “We are a continent of people, families and nations torn apart. We must recall that the European Union is a daily miracle.” |
| In Odesa, Mr. Beaune visited the former synagogue where a great-grandfather, Israel Naroditzky, had worshiped. He recalled his maternal grandmother’s stories about Odesa, at the time part of the Russian Empire. He mused on the forces — antisemitism, fascism, communism, imperialism — that fed 20th-century mass murder, including the killings of Mr. Naroditzky, his brother and one of his sons. | In Odesa, Mr. Beaune visited the former synagogue where a great-grandfather, Israel Naroditzky, had worshiped. He recalled his maternal grandmother’s stories about Odesa, at the time part of the Russian Empire. He mused on the forces — antisemitism, fascism, communism, imperialism — that fed 20th-century mass murder, including the killings of Mr. Naroditzky, his brother and one of his sons. |