Memorial services for the Jewish martyrs and the Warsaw Ghetto fighters were conducted in the Great Synagogue here today by Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi I. J. Unterman and Rabbi Mordecai Nurok, once Chief Rabbi of Latvia.
Rabbi Nurok also eulogized Dr. Albert Einstein, declaring that an “honor has departed from the Jewish nation.” The meeting observed two minutes of silence in memory of Dr. Einstein. At the Haifa Technion, which had bestowed an honorary degree on Dr. Einstein, a special “scientific day” was dedicated to Dr. Einstein’s memory.
Meanwhile, Henrich Otto Greve, a German non-Jew, arrived in Israel as a guest of the Bergen-Belsen Inmates Association, to participate in a national memorial April 24 for the Jewish victims of that Nazi death camp. Herr Greve, long an anti-Nazi, has been active since the war in helping former inmates of the Bergen-Belsen camp recover their legal rights under Germany’s various indemnification and restitution laws.
The inscription of the names of all Jewish victims of the European holocaust of the Nazi regime in a book of “Eternal Pages” to be kept in an “Institute of Catastrophe and Heroism” in Jerusalem was started today. The registration of the names took place at special stations set up in all parts of the country. A later house-to-house canvass will be held to insure that all Jews who perished will be memorialized, A similar project is already under way in Argentina, it was reported here.
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