The World - News from April 17, 1988

Warsaw’s only synagogue was filled to overflowing by more than 1,000 young Jews who prayed, danced and sang songs, including the Israeli national anthem, to mark the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising against Nazi occupation troops. No rabbis remain in Poland, but several from Israel, the United States, Canada and England led the Sabbath services at the rebuilt Nozyk Synagogue. Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Yitzhak Navon, the highestranking Israeli official ever to visit Poland, spoke emotionally in Hebrew to the worshipers, saying that “I want the Hebrew language to be heard here, the language of the resurrection of the Jewish people.” Thousands of Jews from around the world have gathered in Warsaw to mark the anniversary.