Louis Najor, the Belgian Minister of Labor and a former resistance fighter, was the principal speaker at a memorial meeting here last night marking the 29th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising. He spoke of the heroism of the ghetto fighters and all others who gave their lives for freedom.
But, he observed, their sacrifices may have been in vain because the world is still not free from wars and oppression. Najor praised Israel’s accomplishments and expressed hope for peace in the Middle East so that Israel could set an example of humane evolution that other nations might follow. The memorial was organized by the Belgian Zionist Federation and the Belgian section of the World Jewish Congress.
Fewer than 250 persons attended the annual memorial for Jewish war dead in Amsterdam Monday night. The disappointing turnout was attributed to lack of advance publicity. The memorial was organized by Dutch Jewish student and youth organizations. It was held at the “Holland Schouwburg,” a former theater used by the Nazis in 1942-43 as an assembly center for Jews awaiting deportation.
(Jewish sources in the Soviet Union reported today in London that about 300 Latvian Jews participated last Sunday at a memorial meeting for Holocaust victims at Rumbuli, near Riga. Services were held at the site of the mass graves of Jews murdered by the Nazis and their Latvian collaborators. Police were on hand but did not interfere, the sources reported.)
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