A group of 60 Egyptian teen-agers now on a visit to Israel — the first in a planned series of youth exchange visits — went to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. Some of the visitors said their visit to the memorial had been the first time they had heard of the massacre of six million Jews at the hands of the Nazis.
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