Like many who survived Nazi horrors, Mireille Knoll embraced life, eating out and going to the theater despite limited means. The brutal killing in Paris last week has raised uncomfortable questions about resurgent anti-Semitism in France. On Tuesday, prosecutors filed preliminary charges against two people for murder with anti-Semitic motives, including a neighbor Knoll hosted regularly, to lessen her loneliness. An annual national count of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-Muslim and anti-Christian acts — most involving threats — dipped in 2017 compared with the year before. But anti-Semitic violence increased by 26 percent, and criminal damage to Jewish places of worship and burial by 22 percent.

Source: ABC News March 27, 2018 07:28 UTC