A Jewish scholar urged today that remembrance of the six million Jews destroyed by the Nazis in World War II should be incorporated into the daily prayers “just as the memory of the Exodus from Egypt is repeated three times every day in our prayers.” Dr. Abraham Katsh, president of Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning here, said “Jews the world over observe the annual Holocaust Remembrance Day but the Holocaust must be a part of our daily awareness and that of our children who, fortunately, knew it not.” The Holocaust, he said “should also be accorded unflagging repetition in our worship.”
Dr. Katsh is co-chairman of a city-wide memorial committee for the Six Million Jewish Martyrs which will sponsor the 1969 Memorial Service in Philadelphia April 20. He said perpetuation of the memory of the Jewish martyrs from generation to generation would “help prevent a recurrence of a Holocaust whether it be directed at the Jewish people or any other group.”
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