Jews from all parts of Germany and other points in Europe gathered at Bergen-Belsen this week-end to pay tribute to the memory of some 50,000 Jewish victims of Nazism who died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, They marked the 10th anniversary of the day British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen, the first major concentration camp to be entered by Allied troops.
Services were conducted at the base of a special memorial for the Jewish victims by a rabbi and cantor, both former inmates of the camp. Later, before the non-denominational monument to all those who died at the Nazi charnal house, spokesmen for the Central Council of Jews in Germany and other German Jewish groups, as well as for world Jewish groups and for the Israel Purchasing Mission in Germany, paid their tributes. An address was delivered by Lady Rose Henriques of London, who headed the Jewish relief unit from Britain which hurried assistance to the camp shortly after the British captured it.
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