Announcing that two prominent West Germans have assured backing for a demand that desecrated Jewish graves in East European countries be repaired, the New York section of the World Center of European Rabbis launched a campaign to obtain 1, 000, 000 signatures during the Passover week, supporting that demand.
Rabbi M.J.Rubin, a member of the organization’s American predidium, and chairman of the World Center, received letters backing the plan from Emil Hirsch, head of the indemnification committee of the Bundestag, lower house of the German Parliament, and Willy Brandt, mayor of West Berlin. The plan, said Rabbi Rubin, is to restore graves destroyed by the Nazis during the war under the supervision of the International Red Cross. There are at least 2,000 such graves in various East European countries, he said.
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