Memorial services for the victims of the Holocaust were held yesterday and Sunday throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. The services also marked the 33rd anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
Dr. Levy Smolar, president of Baltimore Hebrew College, urged 2000 persons attending a memorial service in the metropolitan Washington area, to teach the younger generation the lessons of the past so that they will be armed against a future Holocaust.
Children from six area Hebrew schools lit candles in memory of the six million Jews who died in the Holocaust during the ceremony at Shaare Tefila Congregation in Silver Spring. Md. The Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington, which sponsored the event, also asked all Jews in the Washington area to light yarzheit candles in their homes last night.
An all-day observance was held in Boston sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Metropolitan Boston, New American’s Association of Greater Boston and the New England Zionist Federation. It included a debate on, "Is Stressing the Holocaust Desirable?" and a service of remembrance.
A Holocaust memorial in Greater Pittsburgh was held at the Jewish Community Center in Oakland. In Topeka, Kansas, a portion of this week’s regular Sabbath evening service at Temple Beth Sholom will be devoted to the history and the literature of the Holocaust. Some 1500 attended a Holocaust memorial at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue in Toronto under the auspices of the Canadian Jewish Congress.
EMULATE WARSAW GHETTO HEROES
In London, MP Greville Janner, vice-president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, told a Holocaust commemoration that "those who persecute a minority are the enemies of the Jewish people everywhere." He said the Jewish community should fight those who persecute people because of the color of their skin with the courage of the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.
Simon Frisner, chairman of the Polish Jewish Ex-Servicemen’s Association, said there will never again be death camps for Jews "because there is a State of Israel." He noted that one-and-a-half million Jewish soldiers fought in the allied armies in World War II while thousands of Jewish partisans operated behind the scenes. The Duke of Devonshire, president of the Conservative Friends of Israel, said Israel has arisen like a phoenix from the dust and ashes of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising.
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