President Reagan will address the opening ceremony of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Monday night, it was announced here today. The gathering, which will run through Thursday, is expected to bring some 10,000 survivors and their children to Washington.
The opening ceremony will be held at the Capitol Centre in Landover, Maryland, the only place big enough to hold such a large crowd. But most of the activity will be in Washington, particularly at the convention center which will be fumed into a “Survivor Village” starting Monday and where there will be various exhibits including ones from the Library of Congress and Yad Vashem in Jerusalem.
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