A hall containing the names of some 1.5 million victims of the Nazi holocaust was opened here last night in the Yad Vashem, the memorial archives, in the presence of members of the government and a large assembly. The names of the victims of Nazism had been submitted by their surviving relatives. Speaking on the occasion, Menahem Beigin, Minister without Portfolio, branded as falsehoods, assertions by the Polish Communists that the Poles had helped save the Jews from slaughter at the hands of the Nazis. “What was done to us will be remembered down to the last generation,” he exclaimed.
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