The Soviet authorities in the Lithuanian city of Ponievesh, a major Jewish communal center before the Nazi occupation, have completed the construction of a housing project on the site of the Jewish cemetery in that city without removing the remains of the Jews buried there.
This was disclosed here today by Rabbi J. Kahanman, head of the famed Ponievezh Yeshiva here. Rabbi Kahanman addressed a meeting held in memory of Lithuanian and Latvian Jews who perished in the Nazi holocaust. Other speakers included Rabbi 1. Zisking of Pardes Katz, and Rabbi Portman of the Ponievezh Yeshiva.
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