The American Jewish Committee yesterday urged the French Government to abandon its plans to exhume the mass grave at the site of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in West Germany in order to remove the remains of French citizens for reburial in France. Richard Maas, chairman of the AJ Committee’s foreign affairs committee, said in a telegram to French Ambassador Charles Lucet that “efforts to disinter the remains of these martyrs will jeopardize the religious and ethical sensitivities of many persons.” The message said further that it would be impossible to distinguish the remains of French citizens “due to the ravages of time and the confusion created by hurried mass burials.”
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