Several thousand persons gathered here before the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto fighters to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the Jewish uprising against the Nazis. Among the participants in the mass meeting were many non-Jews and hundreds of representatives from Jewish communities throughout Poland.
The Polish Communist Party and other political groups as well as the government and the army were represented at the memorial meeting and a representative of the government laid a wreath at the monument inscribed to the “Eternal Glory of the Fighters against Fascism and for a Free Socialist Poland.” No Jews in the government, however, participated in the meeting, nor was there a delegation from Soviet Jewry.
Another meeting was held in the former Jewish quarter of the city with 1, 500 persons present. It was called by the Cultural and Social Union of the Jews of Poland.
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