The 32nd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising was marked here yesterday. It was sponsored by the Association of Polish-Jewish Ex-Servicemen, and organized by the influential Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen of Great Britain. Prior to the rally, a delegation of Polish-Jewish ex-servicemen laid a wreath at the British War Memorial cenotaph in Whitehall. The British government was represented at the rally by the Attorney General Samuel Silkin. QC, MP, a member of distinguished Anglo-Jewish family.
Simon Frisner, chairman of the Association of Polish-Jewish Ex-Servicemen, who presided, noted how the Warsaw Ghetto fighters struggled alone in the face of an indifferent world: “they fought and died so that we may live…After the war we had high hopes that genocide was a thing of the past….Alas it is still possible in our times. But we Jews have changed. We are no longer the classical victims. We have learned how to prevent it happening again. The Israel Defense Forces draw their inspiration not only from the Maccabees and the defenders of Masada, but also from the ghetto fighters.”
(In Toronto 2000 people attended a Holocaust memorial assembly at Beth Tzedeo Synagogue last night and heard Gerda Klein of Buffalo and Yakov Egit relate the horrors of the concentration camps. Egit, speaking in Yiddish, warned that PLO chief Yasir Arafat was a new Hitler and urged his listeners to be alert to the new peril. The assembly was sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress.)
(In Montreal, some 900 people attended a community-wide Holocaust and resistance commemoration last night at the Chevra Kadicha Bnei Jacob Synagogue. A teach-in on the Holocaust was held in the afternoon at the Jewish Public Library. A program was also held in Ottawa at the Machzikei Hadas Congregation.)
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