Ashes symbolic of the 100,000 Jews of Wilna who were massacred by the Nazis in the Ponar forest near that Lithuanian city between 1941-44, were buried here yesterday. Several hundred Wilna Jews and other survivors attended the memorial services held under the auspices of the Association of Wilna Jews.
Dr. Marc Dvorzetzki, chairman of the Association noted that the monument erected in memory of the Ponar victims does not mention the fact that most of them were Jews. Dr. Zerach Warhaftig, Minister for Religious Affairs, denounced what he termed Soviet attempts to erase the facts of the persecution and murder of Jews by the Nazis.
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