A monument will be erected in the Soviet city of Bialystok in honor of Dr. Ludwig Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, the international language, according to a report received here today from Moscow. Dr. Zamenhof was born in Bialystok and a local school and a street are named after him.
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