A number of delegations from foreign countries who came to Poland for the unveiling last Sunday of the Auschwitz Memorial, participated in Warsaw in ceremonies marking the 24th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. It was during Passover in 1943, that vastly superior Nazi forces opened an attack aimed at annihilating the Jewish population of the ghetto. The Jews resisted and held out for five weeks against determined attempts by Nazi troops and armor to crush the enclave.
In the ceremonies here today, the delegations from various countries were joined by thousands of local Jews and non-Jews who made their annual pilgrimage to the memorial site of the ghetto and laid wreaths at the memorial.
(Twelve memorial rallies commemorating the martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto– six of them arranged by the Workmen’s Circle — were held today in New York, One of the meetings, held at the Statler Hotel, was addressed by Senator Jacob Javits. Similar rallies were held in many other Jewish communities throughout the United States.)
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