A memorial service in honor of the Jewish victims of the Nazis in Holland was held here last night before a memorial to resistance heroes which stands in the center of the former Jewish quarter opposite the site of a devastated synagogue. Thousands of Amsterdam citizens, including a number of top Netherlands Government officials attended the service.
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