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April 20, 1961
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A memorial rally commemorating the 18th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, was held here today under the joint sponsorship of the Nidchei Israel Ashkenazi congregation and the Mexican Jewish Sport Center. Mordechai Strigler, editor of the Yiddish Kempfer in New York, was the main speaker at the rally. Six giant candles were lit in memory of the 6,000,000 Jews killed by the Nazis.

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