Task Force For International Cooperation On Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research

France remembers the victims of the Holocaust on the closest Sunday to 16 July. This timing commemorates the rounding up of Jews in the Vélodrome d'Hiver cycle track in Paris on 16 and 17 July 1942. On 3 February 1993, French President François Mitterand signed a decree introducing a "commemorative national day of racist and anti-Semitic persecutions committed under the authority of the so-called ‘Government of the French State' (1940-1944)". On 10 July 2000, a new law restated the decree of 1993, adding that tribute should be paid to the French "Righteous among the Nations".

The day is called "National Day of Remembrance of the victims of racist and anti-Semitic crimes of the so-called ‘Government of the French State', and in homage to the Righteous among the Nations from France."