Celebrations marking the birth of the new Jewish state were held over the week-end in all Italian Jewish Communities. In a palatial villa, near here, where Hermann Goering once held gay parties, and which now is a convalescent home for refuges, 48 Jews who outlived the Nazi leader celebrated t he proclamation of the Jewish Republic of Israel.
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