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Similar programs were held in communities around the United States. President Reagan, who- was unable to participate for the first time since tak- ing office, sent a letter to the program Sunday night stressing that it was only his trip to China that pre- vented him from being there. Also taking part in the ceremony were Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker (R-Tenn.); Elie Wiesel, chairman of the Holocaust Memorial Coun- cil; and a number of gov- ernment officials and Jewish leaders. Before Monday's cere- mony, the members of the council held a groundgreak- ing ceremony for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, to be built on the Mall here. The funds for this project are the result of pri- vate donations. Meanwhile, in New York, more than 5,000 people, mostly Holocaust survivors, their children and grand- children, gathered Sunday for the 41st annual com- memoration of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising at Temple Emanu-El here. They packed the sanctuary and crowded the streets outside, listening to speeches, songs, prayers, hymns and spoken recollections of the Holocaust. The event drew non-Jews as well as Jews to the Re- form synagogue facing Manhattan's Central Park. It was attended by New York political and civic leaders. The emphasis was on the second and third gen- eration, the offspring of the Holocaust survivors who were enjoined by speaker after speaker to bear wit- ness into the future so that the past will not be re- peated. Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Rembrance Day) cere- monies were staged throughout the world last weekend, including Greece, where the Jewish commu- nity commemorated the 40th anniversary of the genocide of Greek Jewry at a memorial Y service attended by 1,000 people at the old Jewish cemetery in Athens. Senior members of the Greek government joined Margaret Papandreou, the wife of Prime Minister An- dreas Papandreou at the services, which were or- ganized by the Central Board of Jewish Com- munities in Greece, the Greek affiliate of the World Jewish Congress. Israel honored the mem- ory of the Six Million Jews who perished in the Holocaust and paid tribute to the Jewish -volunteers who battled the Nazis dur- ing World War II with ceremonies at the Yad Vas- hem in Jerusalem Sunday night. Premier Yitzhak Shamir told the capacity audience that the spirit of the Six Million Holocaust victims guarded Israel in all of its wars and assured its victories. "The suffering of the people of Israel is also,'" strength." Shamir declax Gideon Hausner, chair- man of the Yad Vashem, criticized the world which remained silent while Jews were being 'annihilated by the Nazis. At a rally on Mt. Herzl Monday, Defense Minister Moshe Arens eulogized Jewish volunteers who had fallen in the ranks of the British army during World War II. He said some 1.5 million Jews fought in the armies and the under- ground movements. Arens also observed that had the Allied given top priority to saving Jews, hundreds of thousands could have been saved. Other memorial cere- monies were held Monday at Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot, Yad Mordechai and Tel Yitzhak. Pope's letter on Jerusalem raises ire of Teddy Kollek Jerusalem (JTA) — Mayor Teddy Kollek said here that Pope John Paul II ignored the complete free- dom of worship available to all faiths in Jerusalem when he issued his apostolic letter urging "special inter- nationally guaranteed status" for Jerusalem. In remarks during Easter holiday visits to Greek Or- thodox and Catholic pre- lates in Jerusalem, Kollek maintained that the Pope neglected to rake into ac- count Israel's constant ef- forts to help various Chris- tian denominations in the city. The Pope's letter, ad- dressed to Catholics in Is- rael and to all people of the Middle East, repeated the Vatican's longstanding call for the internationally rec- ognized status of Jerusalem "so that one side or the other cannot place it under dis- crimination." The Pope also said a Palestinian homeland and security for Israel were fun- damental requirements for a lasting Mideast peace. The letter, although it broke no new ground in terms of Vatican policy, was not well received in Israel. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said that "Jerusalem has been the capital of the Jewish people throughout history and will remain Israel's capital forever" and that there has never been such complete freedom or worship as that presently available to all faiths under Israeli policy. Swiss MP resigns post Geneva (JTA) Emanuel Hurwitz, a Jewish Socialist member of the Swiss Parliament from Zurich, has resigned from his post and from the party following the party's anti- Israeli stand and its dec- laration that there is no place for a left-wing Jew in today's Socialist Party. In a manifesto prepared for May Day, the party had stated "its full support and sympathy for the PLO and its struggle as well as for the freedom movements in Sal- vador, Turkey and the Polisario." Hurwitz, in his letter of resignation wrote that he could not accept this c sided attitude which, called politically untrue. "How can one support the resistance of the PLO which has never recognized Is- rael's right of existence?" It is also an injustice to con- demn Israel together with fascist regimes, he said. According to Hans Ulrich Zbinden, the president of the Socialist Party of Zurich, it is expected that more Jews will leave the party following the inci- dent.