Three thousand Jews from all over Moldavia joined by thousands of other Rumanians, gathered in lassy today to mark the 40th anniversary of the pogrom in 1941 when over 10,000 Jews were murdered in the streets of that city or were asphyxiated in the infamous “death train.”
The mass gathering, which was televised nationally, heard strong denunciations of anti-Semitism by Leonard Constantin, First Secretary of the Communist Party in lassy, Gen. Neagu Andreivice president of the Anti-Fascist Fighters, lassy Mayor Nichi Forneugen and others. Chief Rabbi Moses Rosen of Rumania addressed the throng on the dangers of revived anti-Semitism. He expressed gratitude to President Nicolai Ceausescu of Rumania for his recent vehement condemnations of anti-Semitism.
If any isolated vestiges of anti-Semitism remain, Rosen said, Rumanian Jews can react with dignity because they know the entire Rumanian people and their President condemn them. Religious services were held. Students of the lassy Hebrew School sang “Ani Maamin (I Believe)”and the songs of Jewish partisan fighters of World War II.
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