More then 6,000 displaced Jews in the Munich area will attend a J.D.C.-sponsored mammoth Passover Seder tomorrow evening, it was announced here today by Rabbi Solomon Shapiro, J.D.C. director for religious affairs in Germany, who will officiate. Rabbi Shapiro reported that several hundred similar seders will be held in DP camps and communities throughout German.
More than 1,000,000 pounds of Passover matzohs baked in Germany with U.S. Army permission have been distributed to Jewish communities, along with large quantities of kosher margarine, wine and other holiday foods, the J.D.C. office here said.
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