Several thousand persons attended a mass meeting here tonight honoring the memory of the 6,000,000 Jews annihilated by the Nazis. Louis Segal, member of the Jewish Agency executive and secretary-general of the Farband-Labor Zionist Organization, presided at the meeting which took place at the Biltmore Hotel here. The gathering was arranged jointly by a number of Jewish organizations.
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