Official representatives of the Dutch government and of the Rumanian National Committee were among those who came to honor the memory of Chief Rabbi Judah Loeb Zirelson of Bessarabia and Rabbi M. Hirsch of Holland at a service held in the great synagogue on Cannon Street Road here today. Rabbi Zirelson was killed in his home during a German air raid on July 6. The circumstances of Rabbi Hirsch’s death in Zwohle recently are unknown.
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