The concern of religious Jewry throughout the world at the Greek Government’s levelling of the Jewish cemetery at Salonika and using tombstones for an extension of the city’s sea wall has been expressed by the Agudah executive here to the Greek Ambassador to London, Leon V. Melas.
The executive asked Ambassador Melas to urge his government to halt the digging up of the cemetery and to consult with the rabbinate of Greece before taking any similar action in the future. “We feel the tragedy of Greek Jewry during the war justifies permitting the dead to rest,” the Agudah statement declared.
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