American Jewish leaders will participate in the cornerstone laying ceremony of the Memorial to the Unknown Jewish Martyr which will take place in Paris on April 19, it was announced here today by Isaac Schneer-sohn, French Jewish leader, who arrived in this country in behalf of the world-wide movement to erect in Paris a tomb honoring the 6,000,000 Jews annihilated by the Nazis.
Mr. Schneersohn, who is the president of the Documentation Center for Contemporary Jewish Records in France, said that the ceremony will be attended by the President of France, members of the French Cabinet, and representatives of Jewish communities throughout the world. The municipal council of Paris has made a free gift of the land on which the Memorial will stand. Jews in all parts of the world will be asked to register the names of their murdered relatives in a Book of Remembrance which will be kept in the Memorial.
American members of the world committee for the erection of the Memorial include Sen. Herbert H. Lehman, Edward M.M. Warburg, Jacob Blaustein, David Dubinsky, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Adolph Held, Nathan Chanin and others. The project is being carried out under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth of Belgium, Princess Wilhelmina of Holland, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, French Premier Rene Mayer, Israel Premier David Ben Gurion, as well as the Prime Ministers of Denmark, Sweden and Belgium.
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