A call to Jewish communities throughout the world to commemorate the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising with special services and ceremonies has been issued by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress. This year the anniversary of the heroic stand by the Ghetto resistance fighters will fall on May 1, which coincides with the 27th of Nisan.
Dr. Goldmann said it would be appropriate for Jewish communities, large and small, to mark the occasion in such a way as to perpetuate the memory of the men and women who fell in Warsaw and, at the same time, to instil in Jewish youth of today a recognition of the role of the Warsaw martyrs, as well as an understanding of the misery that European Jewry suffered under the Nazis. To this end. Dr. Goldmann said he hoped that communities would plan their commemoration services and functions to include youth groups and clubs as fully as possible.
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