Governor Negrao deLima of the state of Guanabara and a representative of President Costa e Silva were among the 2,000 persons who participated in ceremonies here last night commemorating the 24th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the murder of 6,000,000 Jews in the Nazi holocaust.
Israel Ambassador Shmuel Divon and Rabbi Rachmiel Blumenfeld,who addressed the gathering, alluded to the requests by West Germany, Austria and Poland for the extradition of Franz Stangl, former commandant of the Treblinka and Sobibor concentration camps, who was arrested in Brazil two months ago.
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