A memorial to 99 Jewish concentration camp vic-##tims near St. Floria, in Uppor Austria, has been removed and replaced by a marker bearing the inscription “99 victims of the World War,” it was revealed here.
Jewish organizations, particularly those representing former persecutees and camp inmates, have protested and are demanding that the former memorial be returned. the 99 were murdered by German S.S. troops in 1945.
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