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April 11, 2005
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The leader of a Holocaust survivors group will meet with Mormon officials to discuss the practice of posthumously baptizing Holocaust victims and other Jews. Ernest Michel, chairman of the New York-based World Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, said Mormons were continuing with the baptisms despite having promised in 1995 and 2000 to stop.

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