Three members of the Rothschild family were in the front ranks of 20,000 French Jews who marched here yesterday in a mass demonstration against the continued harassment of Jews in the Soviet Union. The march was organized by the Representative Council of Jewish Institutes in France (CRIF) on the occasion of a national day of solidarity for Soviet Jews. The route was from the Place de La Republique to the Hotel De Ville, the Paris City Hall.
Similar marches took place yesterday in Marseilles where 3000 demonstrated for Soviet Jews; in Nice, Strasbourg, Lille and Toulouse. The marchers in Paris included Jean Rosenthal, president of CRIF: Claude Kelman, president of the Commission of Jews in the USSR; Paris Chief Rabbi Jais Meyer; Alain de Rothschild, president of the French Central Consistory and two other members of the famous banking family.
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