A memorial service commemorating 4,000 Jews from Bohemia and Moravia who were gassed to death by the Nazis at Auschwitz on March 8-9, 1944, was held this week at the Greek Synagogue in Prague, it was reported in “Vestnik,” official publication of the Czech Jewish community, which arrived here today.
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