Dr. Geza Seifert, president of the Central Board of Hungarian Jews, will be the main speaker at a memorial meeting May 19 commemorating the 30th anniversary of the holocaust of Hungary’s 600,000 Jews, according to Rabbi Arthur Schneier of the Park East Synagogue, where the meeting will take place and himself one of the speakers. Dr. Seifert will arrive from Budapest especially for this meeting.
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