The World - News from April 19, 1988

Hundreds of Jews from all over the world, some weeping, lit memorial candles at the site of the Treblinka death camp in Poland where the Nazis murdered 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto. Earlier, many watched the unveiling in Warsaw of a striking new monument at the former Umschlagplatz (Loading Square) where in 1942-43 the Nazis put ghetto residents on trains for Treblinka. The twin ceremonies were high points in commemorations of the 45th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising of April 19, 1943, in which Jewish fighters battled hopelessly for three weeks before the Nazis razed the ghetto.