Passover, the holiday of liberation, was marked today by the liberated Jews in the British zone of Germany with the unveiling of a monument inscribed “Israel and the World will Remember the 30,000 Jews Exterminated in the Belsen Camp at the Hands of the Murderous Nazis.”
The monument was unveiled on the site of the notorious Bergen-Belsen camp. The ceremony was arranged by the Central Jewish Committee in the British zone, which represents all the displaced Jews there. It was attended by representatives of the Allied forces. The unveiling of the monument coincides with the first anniversary of the liberation of its inmates.
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