Three thousand persons, including high-ranking government and military officials, filled the largest hall in this city last night to participate in a dramatic meeting marking the fourth anniversary of the revolt in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Minister of Reconstruction Michel Kaczorowski, speaking “in the name of the Polish Government and the Polish people,” paid tribute to the heroism of the ghetto fighters. Gen. Kazimir Zarzycki, representing the Polish Army General Staff, lauded the contribution of the Polish Jews who battled the Nazis in the ghettos, in the woods as partisans and on the front lines. Youthful Chaya Grossman, a veteran of the ghetto rebellion, and well known Jewish writers and actors also participated.
The Polish press devoted many articles to the anniversary and special programs were broadcast over the radio stations in Warsaw, Wroclaw (Breslau), Cracow and Poznan. Meetings were also held in Lodz and in several cities in Lower Silesia, where thousands of Jews have resettled. Non-Jewish organizations in the Silesian cities hung banners in the street commemorating the revolt and pointing out that the ghetto fighters had also been struggling for Polish freedom.
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