Memorial to Heroes of Warsaw Ghetto Unveiled in Paris; Russia Absent

A memorial to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt against the Nazi regime, combined with mementos depicting the Nazi holocaust, was officially unveiled here today at the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr.

The memorial consists of exhibits of photographs, documents and relics, many of them contributed by the Institute for Jewish History, at Warsaw; others sent here by Jewish communities from other countries behind the Iron Curtain; by Yad Vashem, the center for documentation of the holocaust in Israel; and by Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, an Israeli settlement founded by Warsaw Ghetto survivors. The exhibit was organized by the Center of Contemporary Jewish Documentation here, with the assistance of the Conference for Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.

M. Triboulet, French Minister of Veterans Affairs, spoke at the opening of the exhibit on behalf of President Charles de Gaulle and the French Government. Other speakers included Walter Eytan, Israel Ambassador here; and Polish Ambassador Jan Druto. A number of other diplomats and leaders of Jewish communities from various European countries, including Communist states, participated in the ceremonies.

Among the latter were Berl Mark, director-general of the Warsaw Institute for Jewish History; Adam Rutkovsky, secretary-general of the Warsaw Institute, who has been working here for a month, helping organize the exhibit; Endre Sos, chairman of the National Bureau of Hungarian Jews of Hungary; Hungary’s Chief Rabbi Imre Benaschofsky; Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of Rumania; and Ben Zion Levi and David Levi, from Yugoslavia.

Keen disappointment was expressed by the organizers of the memorial over the fact that a 10-panel exhibit promised by the Soviet Union, failed, for an unexplained reason, to arrive. A Soviet delegation to have been headed by Mr. Dragunsky also failed to show up.