Formation of an international committee to raise funds for a monument to the martyrs annihilated by the Nazi regime at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was announced here today.
Members of the committee include Max Born, a Jewish West German atomic scientist; the famous cellist, Pablo Cassals; Francois Mauriac, the French writer; and Arnold Zweig, a German-Jewish writer, who lives in East Germany.
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