Jews in Geneva observed Jewish Children’s Day, an annual event held in memory of the 1,200,000 children murdered during the war by the Nasis.
The program was opened by Claude Levy, president of the French-speaking Switzerland Committee of Friends of the Swiss Children’s Village, Kiriat Yearim in Israel. M. Levy spoke first of the memory of the murdered children and then about the way of life of young people in Israel today.
In a related ceremony, the Geneva Jewish community placed a plaque on the wall of the synagogue here in memory of the Jewish martyrs of Nazism. The inscription in French read: “Because they were Jewish, 6,000,000 men, women and children were killed during the Nazi era, innocent victims of a world heavy with sin.”
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