Delegations of Jewish organizations abroad began to arrive here today to attend the unveiling of a monument in memory of the Warsaw Ghetto martyrs on April 19. The delegations include a six-man group from Palestine bringing soil from every settlement in the country, which will be deposited at the base of the monument.
Work on the memorial is proceeding at a rapid pace in an attempt to complete it by April 15. The unveiling will occur simultaneously with similar ceremonies at Osweicim and Treblinka, whose gas chambers and crematoria accounted for most of the millions of Jews murdered by the Nazis in Poland. A commemorative tablet will also be unveiled on a building alongside a railroad hiding in Warsaw from which hundreds of thousands of the city’s Jews were deported to their death.
The government has contributed 10,000,000 zlotys toward the cost of the memorial and the Jews of Poland have raised an additional 18,000,000 zlotys. The Polish railway system has placed on sale 5,000 special reduced-rate tickets for Jews outside of the capital to travel there to attend the ceremonies, while the Post Office has designed a special cancellation commemorating the occasion for use on all mail handled in Warsaw on April 19. All participants in the ceremonies will receive a special silver medal struck by the Jewish Central Committee of Poland.
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