A monument to the 66 Jews among the 330 Romans murdered by the Germans in the Ardeatine Caves, near here, was erected today at the site of the massacre. The memorial, in the form of a star of David, was placed alongside a cross commemorating the non-Jewish victims.
The 330 men and boys were taken from the Regina Coeli prison to a place out side the caves, shot and their bodies flung into the caves, in reprisal for the killing of ten members of the Elite Guard. A motor caravan arranged by the Italian Government brought relatives of the murdered men to the ceremonies, which were conducted by American and British chaplains.
In a broadcast from here today, on a program sponsored jointly by the National Broadcasting Corporation and the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York, Capt. Jacob Hochman, a U. S. Army chaplain, appealed to the Jewish seminaries and religious organizations in America to help rebuild the Hebrew Library of Rome which was sacked by the Nazis.
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