French police arrested but later released about two dozen Jewish youths last night after some 200 shouting demonstrators stormed the Palais d’Hiver in an attempt to prevent a performance by the Red Army Chorus. The youngsters, carrying signs denouncing alleged anti-Jewish discrimination in the Soviet Union, delayed the performance for about a half hour before they were ejected by police. A delegation of survivors of the Vilna ghetto now living in France, will go to Stuttgart shortly to dedicate a monument to Lithuanian victims of Nazism. The monument has been erected on the site of the former Dautmergen concentration camp in the former French occupation zone. The survivors have asked French authorities to identify Jewish graves in the camp cemetery.
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