More than 1,000 people crowded the Drury Lane Theater here last night for the observance of the 24th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Revolt against the Nazis and in memory of the 6,000,000 Jewish men, women and children the Nazis murdered. The observance was sponsored by the Polish Ex-Servicemen’s Association in cooperation with the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the British Section of the World Jewish Congress and the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women.
Prof. Boris Chain, a Nobel Prize winner, paid tribute to the heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto who had “preferred to die soldiers’ deaths rather than perish of starvation and disease” in the ghetto. He said that it was “almost impossible” for mankind to rely on scientific and intellectual progress to prevent a recurrence of the “horrible massacres” committed by the Nazis. “We must rely on the ethical laws laid down in the Bible as our most precious heritage,” he asserted.
Sir Barnett Janner told the assemblage that Nazism had “reared its head again” and called for constant vigilance. He described Israel as the “safeguard” of the existence of the Jewish people. Col. George Dean of the Association of Jewish veterans paid tribute to the men and women “who in one city raised high the Jewish standard to the world which too often looked the other way.” Dr. S. Levenberg of the Jewish Agency said it was “high time” that the United Nations named a high-level commission of scholars to investigate all aspects of the Nazi genocide campaign which led to the murder of 6,000,000 Jews.
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