A meeting called to protest the West German Government decision to allow the Statute of Limitations to take effect for Nazi war criminals on May 8 was held last night at the Moscow Central Synagogue, it was reported here today by Novosti, the Soviet press agency which supplies news to the foreign press.
The large audience attending the rally adopted a resolution voicing “deep indignation” at the Bonn stand “which threatened to allow Nazi war criminals to go free,” the Novosti report said.
Moscow Chief Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin lighted six large candles at the rally in memory of the 6,000,000 Jews murdered by the Nazis. In an address to the gathering, Rabbi Levin stressed that amnesty to the Nazi war criminals would be the “greatest possible insult to the sacred memory of millions of persons of different nationalities.”
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
