Martin Hirsch, president of the Indemnification Committee of the Bundestag, the lower house of the West German Parliament, has agreed to present to the Farliament a $20,000,000 proposal for the restoration of 2,000 Jewish cemeteries ravaged by the Nazis during the Second World War, it was disclosed here by Rabbi Samuel Horowitz, secretary of the World Center of European Rabbis.
Addressing a conference of the organization, Rabbi Horowitz said that the German Government had been asked to turn over the necessary funds to the International Red Cross in Geneva to beautify and protect the neglected cemeteries situated mostly in Poland. Similarly desecrated burial sites in Germany have already been restored. Synagogues throughout the United States have been asked to collect signatures for a petition on the project to be presented to the Bonn Government.
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