The 22nd anniversary of the Jewish uprising against the Nazi army in the Warsaw Ghetto was commemorated here today with a mass-pilgrimage to the Monument of the Ghetto Fighters, the work of the famous sculptor Nathan Rapaport, which stands in the section of the city where the Jews put up their heroic fight against the German military might. The participants then marched in silence through the streets named for Mordecal Anilewicz and Josef Levartowsky, the leaders of the ghetto revolt, and proceeded to the street named “The Road of the Ghetto Fighters.”
The Polish Ministry of Culture agreed here today that a special Jewish exhibit be erected at the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp, and that Israel be represented on the committee to plan the Jewish exhibit. The agreement was made between the Ministry and Steohan Grajek, head of Israel’s delegation to an assembly held here by the International Conference of the Auschwitz Organization and Underground Fighters.
Five European countries in addition to Israel were represented at the assembly, where the establishment of several exhibits was discussed as part of the permanent shrine at Auschwitz. Mr. Grajek, who had urged the planning of a Jewish exhibit at the former murder camp for the last two years, was elected a member of the Conference executive committee.
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