Grieving family members have gathered for the funeral of an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who was stabbed to death for being Jewish in a case that has shocked France. Mireille Knoll was forced to flee Paris with her family at the age of nine to escape a notorious World War II roundup of Jews. After the war she returned to Paris and spent most of her life in the eastern Paris apartment where she was killed, according to her son. Killed: Mireille Knoll, 85, was found stabbed to death after a fire in her flat in ParisLe Pen tweeted Wednesday that the CRIF can't stop her from attending. 'Whether it is a Jewish mother, a black mother, a Protestant mother, a Muslim mother, they are all our mothers.

Source: Daily Mail March 28, 2018 15:08 UTC