A “Day of Remembrance for the Jewish People” was observed here by the Evangelical Church in Wurttemberg-Baden. A sermon in honor of the 6,000,000 martyred Jews murdered by the Nazis was delivered by Dean Maas of Heidelberg, who recently visited Israel at the invitation of the Israel Government, He was the first German to receive such an invitation.
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