(JTA) – More than 1,200 people attended a funeral near London to bury the remains of six unknown Jews who died in the Holocaust.
Fifty Holocaust survivors escorted a small coffin carrying the bones and ashes of five adults and one child.
The remains were transferred earlier this month to the office of the chief rabbi from the United Kingdom’s Imperial War Museum, where they had been held since 1997, part of a collection of Holocaust-related items said to have originated at Auschwitz. [Read more…]