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English Govt. Orders Return of Nazi-uprooted Jewish Tombstones to Nearby Cemeteries

April 22, 1948
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The Ministry of Justice has ordered German POW’s ## assemble Jewish tombstones in the town of Sierpce and return them to the nearby Jewish cemetery from which they were uprooted end scattered in the streets of the in by Germans during the war. The Ministry acted on the request of the town’s ##viving Jewish population, which numbers five persons.At the request of the Lublin Jewish Committee, the government has also ordered ##e return of Jewish tombstones, which have lain in the streets of Zamosc since the ##zi occupation, to the adjoining ancient Jewish burial place. There are no longer ##y Jews living in Zamosc, a town near Lublin, whose pre-war population was chiefly Jewish.

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