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Jewish Groups in France to Erect Memorial for 6,000,000 Jews Annihilated by Nazis

March 1, 1951
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A three-story building to serve as a memorial to the 6,000,000 Jews slaughtered by the Nazis will be built here, it was announced today. An international sponsorship committee for the project is now being organized under the leadership of Dr. Isaye Schwartz, Chief Rabbi of France, and Baron Guy de Rothschild.

The ground floor of the building will be given over to the tomb of an unknown Jewish martyr and will contain ashes from the Auschwitz death camp. The second floor of the edifice will be a museum. The third floor will contain the archives of the Center of Contemporary Documentation. The chairman of the center, M.J. Schneersohn, drew up the plan for the memorial.

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