Representatives of Israel and Jewish communities and organizations from all over the world will attend the official opening of the Jewish memorial pavilion at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on April 17. Stefan Grayek, chairman of the World Organization of Jewish Fighters, Partisans and Concentration Camp Inmates, reported here that the Polish authorities agreed the pavilion will be devoted to the Holocaust. He said material for the pavilion was selected from the Yad Vashem memorial and Ghetto Fighters Museum collections in Israel.
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