Yom Kippur services will be held tonight and tomorrow for several hundred recently-arrived Jewish displaced persons immigrants at the HIAS synagogue here. Services tomorrow will include chanting of the Yizkor–memorial for the dead. HIAS-sponsored Yom Kippur services have also been arranged at Ellis Island for Jews detained there temporarily.
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