A memorial to the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust, and a tribute to the Danish people who risked their lives to rescue Danish Jewry, will be dedicated Oct. 14 by the members of Temple Shalom, the newly constructed Reform Congregation here. Bent Skou, the Counselor to the Royal Danish Embassy in Washington, will receive the tribute on behalf of the Danish people. Lucy Dawidowicz, author, lecturer and professor of Holocaust. Studies at Yeshiva University, New York, will deliver the dedication address. The memorial to the six million is the first of its kind housed in a Reform congregation, and the tribute to the Danish people is the only such tribute housed in any synagogue in the world, according to Rabbi Saul P. Besser of Temple Shalom.
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