More than 25,000 persons attended two mass memorial meetings in Israel yesterday to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Some 20,000 persons gathered at Kibbutz Mordechai Haghettacht, in Upper Galilee, where part of the survivors of the month-long battle against Nazis now live. At Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, near the Gaza strip, where the other survivors live, 5, 000 persons gathered to watch a parade and the laying of wreaths at the foot of a monument to Mordechai Anelevitz, youthful commander of the combined Jewish forces in the revolt.
At another ceremony on the slopes of the Judean Hillo, near the recently established Kissalon colony, a memorial forest known as Yaar Kdoshim was planted. Ten different sections were named for major cities in Poland in which large Jewish communities had lived until the Nazi holocaust.
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