The Central Jewish Committee has lodged a protest with government official over the failure to Include in a memorial plaque at Oswiecim the listing of Jews as one of the national groups whose members perished in the notorious death camp. The Committee pointed out that more than 2,000,000 Jews died at the hands of the Germans in the Oswiecim camp.
Disclosure of the omission of the Jews from the memorial tableu erected on the site of the camp, which lists the various nationalities of the victims who died there, resulted from a tow of inquiry being conducted by a Committee delegation. Meanwhile, the Committee announced that a memorial to the Jew who were murdered in the Birkenau concentration camp will be erected shortly.
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