New York Senator Jacob K. Javits called on the United States Government to end a 14-year delay and ratify the United Nations Convention on Genocide. Addressing a memorial meeting for the 6,000,000 martyred Jews who lost their lives in the Nazi holocaust, Sen. Javits said that the world must never forget the possibility of a Nazi-like holocaust as the fruit of dictatorship and hate, and he urged continued protests against anti- Jewish acts in the Soviet Union.
The meeting, which was attended by some 2,500 representatives of New York fraternal, benevolent and social organizations affiliated with the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, also heard addresses by R. Sargent Shriver, director of the U.S. Peace Corps and coordinator of President Johnson’s Anti-Poverty Program; and Justice Michael M. Musmanno of Pennsylvania, who was a member of the prosecution staff during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.
A highlight of the gathering was a ceremony in which six survivors of Nazi concentration camps lighted six giant candles in memory of the 6,000,000 Jews who perished in the Nazi effort to annihilate Europe’s Jews,
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