At meetings and religious services throughout the country today, the surviving Jews of Poland paid tribute to the 40,000 who were killed in the Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto, which began April 19, 1943.
At a ceremony on the site of the ghetto, which is a mass of ruins covering the bodies of tens of thousands of Jews, Dr. Emir Sommerstein, president of the Central Jewish Committee, laid a wreath amidst the debris. Yesterday, the Warsaw City Council voted to mark the anniversary by renaming the streets in the ghetto after the leaders of the revolt.
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