Jews who were born in Vilna, Lithuania, once a flourishing center of Jewish life and learning in Eastern Europe, will gather here later this month for a meeting that will mark the 25th anniversary of the destruction of the Vilna ghetto by the Nazis. The meeting will take place from July 29 to Aug. 4 and will be attended by some 200 delegates from abroad, according to Dr. Marc Dvorzecki, chairman of the National Committee of Vilna Jews. They will come from North and South America and from as far away as India, Dr. Dvorzecki said. But none are expected to represent the estimated 10,000 Jews presently living in Vilna which belongs to Russia today as it did prior to World War 1. Soviet Jews are not generally permitted to leave their country.
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