— Premier Menachem Begin has agreed to halt Likud election campaign activities for one day on June 15, to mark the opening of the “World Gathering of Holocaust Survivors” in Jerusalem. The committee arranging the gathering said it would approach other parties to make the some gesture.
To date, some 2500 Holocaust survivors and members of their families from various parts of the world have registered to take part in the gathering, the committee said this week. The committee is chaired by Ernest Michel of New York. The three joint honorary chairman are European Parliament President Simone Veil, author Elie Wiesel, and Stefan Grayek, chairman of the Jewish Partisans Organization.
The aims of the gathering, defined by the organizing committee, are “to emphasize the significance and lessons of the Holocaust; to serve notice to the entire world that the Holocaust must never be forgotten and never be repeated against any other nation; to affirm the continuity and survival of the Jewish people as a whole and the State of Israel as their focal point; to bear personal with ness, on a worldwide scale, to the Holocaust experience and to transmit a testament from all the Jewish Holocaust survivors to the next generation.”
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