Three thousand Minsk Jews commemorated the slaughter of 5000 friends and relatives by the Nazis on Purim, 1942 with a wreath-laying and prayer service earlier this month (March 5) at the modest monument permitted by Soviet authorities, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry has learned from information relayed by Minsk refusniks to Dallas friends. “The meeting was very solemn,” the Jews reported, “but it was possible because of the attention of our American Jewish friends. Before, Jews were afraid to gather. This time, the police only stood by, and there was only one police car. Nobody spoke that day. We stood silently, and that silence was better than words.”
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