The Canadian Jewish Congress disclosed today that it had received from a resident of a small Jewish community in Canada, a bar of soap “produced” by the Nazis from human corpses as part of their extermination policy against the Jews. After consulting rabbinic authorities, Congress officials arranged for the burial of the soap in a local Jewish cemetery.
“There is very little one could say when confronted with further proof of the monstrosity of the crimes perpetrated against the Jewish people, but perhaps there is some good in being constantly reminded of it, ” a Congress spokesman declared.
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