Remembrance Day for the six million Jews killed by the Nazis was widely observed throughout South Africa last week. Commemoration meetings were conducted in all the main cities and special services took place in synagogues even in small towns.
Three thousand people gathered for the special commemoration at the Monument to the Martyrs in the Jewish cemetery here. D.K. Mann, chairman of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies, presided. Addresses were delivered by N. Philips. Q.C., a vice-president of the Board, and I. Neter, chairman of the local Sheerit Hapleitah (survivors of the Nazi Holocaust). Children of the concentration camp survivors lit the memorial lamps.
There were large gatherings at similar memorial meetings in Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Durban and many other towns. The South African Yad Vashem opened an exhibition on the Holocaust in Johannesburg. It will be shown later in other cities.
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