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Sharett Leads Jews and Non-jews on Pilgrimage to Bergen Belzen Graves

July 13, 1959
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A group of Jewish and non-Jewish delegates to the Socialist International conference, led by former Israel Prime Minister Moshe Sharett, made a pilgrimage today to the mass graves at Bergen Belsen, the Nazi murder camp.

Participants included Dr. S. Levenberg of London, Mrs. Barbara Castle, chairman of the British Labor Party delegation, four Ministers of State of Lower Saxony and delegates from Denmark, Holland and other European nations.

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