The 16th anniversary of the uprising of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto, under the Nazi regime, was widely commemorated in Poland, according to reports received here today.
Polish soldiers and Boy Scouts mounted guard at the monument to the martyrs of the Warsaw Ghetto, the report stated. “Communist dignitaries,” it said, joined in paying honor to the memory of the martyrs, along with representatives of the Social and Cultural Federation of Jews in Poland, the Warsaw National Council, and the command of the Warsaw military district. A member of the Israel legation in Warsaw was reported present at the rites.
The Warsaw report stated that the anniversary was observed also over the Rumanian radio, through a special broadcast arranged by “the Yiddish section” of the government-owned broadcasting station.
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