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Section of Monument to Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw Attracts Nationwide Attention

April 21, 1948
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The entire Polish press in this city today devoted large sections of their editions to coverage of the ceremonies yesterday marking the fifth anniversary of the battle of the Warsaw ghetto. In this city and a number of ##ther major Polish cities the government radio carried programs in commemoration of the occasion.

Among the Polish Jewish leaders and government officials on the rostrum at the rally here were representatives of Jewish delegations from 20 different countries. Various members of the foreign delegations addressed the rally which was attended at the time or another by several hundred thousand persons, while the Palestinian delegates deposited a container of soil from their land at the base of the bronze-and-?ranite monument to the Jewish martyrs.

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