The eighth anniversary of the battle of the Warsaw Ghetto was commemorated by the remaining Jews in Poland, according to reports from Warsaw today.
Only a handful of Jews, however, were reported present at Auschwitz where some 50,000 persons marked the sixth anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The ceremonies at Auschwitz were under direction of the Government and delegations were present from Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Polish Premier Joseph Cyrankiewicz and several hundred other former inmates of the camp attended the services.
At Brzezinka, site of a crematorium where thousands of Jews were exterminated, a wreath was laid in behalf of the Jewish communities of Poland by a representative of the local Jewish community which now numbers only three families. Forty thousand persons attended ceremonies at the site of the Majdanek camp, including the entire local Jewish community of 200.
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