Carrying out a custom in the Washington area, numerous homes lighted yarzheit candles Saturday night in observance of Yom Hashoah. At the Washington Hebrew Congregation Saturday night, 1000 persons gathered for a program sponsored by the Jewish Community Council of Greater Washington. Michael Berenboum, the new executive director of the Council, Abe Malnik, a past president of Club Shalom, which comprises survivors of Nazi death camps, and Frances Rogala, a daughter of a survivor, spoke.
Yesterday, at the Washington Hebrew Congregation, Nazi-hunters Beate and Serge Klarsfeld of France spoke of their direct encounters with Nazis in the Middle East and Europe and called on governments to bring Nazis to justice.
(In Toronto yesterday, Rabbi W. Gunther Plout, president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, described to a gathering at the Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue his experiences in liberating the death camp at Nordhousen with U.S. forces on April 12, 1945.)
(In Amsterdam, Queen Juliana attended two ceremonies in memory of the more than 100,000 Dutch Jews who died in the Holocaust.)
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