The Israeli ballet company, Bat Dor, paused in its highly successful tour of Poland last Thursday to recite Kaddish at the site of the Treblinka death camp, it was reported here. Barry Swersky, manager of the company, led the dancers in placing a wreath at the foot of a stone plinth which marks the site. Treblinka was demolished by the Nazis after a prisoner revolt in August, 1943.
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