A meeting marking the 15th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt was held here today under the auspices of the Memorial for the Unknown Jewish Martyr.
The meeting, which also memorialized the six million Jews martyred by the Nazis, was addressed by Sen. Daniel Mayer and Sen. Leo Hamon. Several of the small band of survivors of the hand to hand and street to street battle of the Jews against Nazi elite troops, tanks and artillery participated in the meeting.
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