Moving tributes to the Government and people of Denmark were paid here last night at a mass meeting commemorating the 20th anniversary of the rescue of the Jews of Denmark from the Nazis.
Speakers included Deputy Premier Abba Eban, Moshe Sharett, chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive and Professor Arieh Tartakower of the World Jewish Congress Israel executive. Speakers lauded the courage of the Danish people in defying Nazi orders to round up Jews and instead smuggling them out of Denmark just as the Nazi occupation authorities planned to deport them.
A large delegation, representing the Danish Government and people, among them former underground members who took part in the rescue operations, attended the meeting as guests of the sponsors. They included fishermen, academicians, housewives and widows of resistance fighters.
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