Ashes of 3,000 Jews from the town of Drobnin, Poland, who were gassed and cremated by the Nazis at Auschwitz during the Second World War were interred today on the burial grounds of the Drobniner Benevolent Society. Special services were held at the cemetery. All Drobniners were killed at Auschwitz, except those who were fit for heavy labor.
One of the survivors, Rabbi David Foffer of the Jewish Theological Seminary, returned to Auschwitz recently and arranged to have the ashes from the crematories sent here for burial at the foot of a monument erected in memory of the Drobniners.
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