Monument to 4,000 Jews Killed by Nazis in Zagreb Unveiled in City

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July 2, 1962

ZAGREB, Yugoslavia (Jul. 1)

A monument to the memory of the four thousand Jews of this town who were murdered by the Nazis, was unveiled here. The inscription on the memorial states that the Jews had been “tortured by the Fascist Amalekites.”

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