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Friday April 28, 2000

World Report

WARSAW (JTA) -- Poland's prime minister paid tribute to the "heroic struggle" of the Warsaw Ghetto fighters who rose up against the Nazis 57 years ago this month in the first instance of mass armed resistance in Nazi-occupied Polish territory.

"They openly defied the butchers of Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, Chelmno, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau," Jerzy Buzek said in a statement coinciding with the anniversary of the uprising. "They had no hope of victory. They fought for a dignified death."

Commission head criticizes Swiss banks

GENEVA (JTA) -- The head of a commission that spent three years probing dormant Swiss bank accounts from the Holocaust era is complaining that the banks are not following his recommendations.

Paul Volcker also reportedly complained to a U.S. judge overseeing a $1.25 billion settlement involving the banks that they are unwilling to include all the accounts from that period in a central data base.

Swiss banking officials confirmed that they are willing to publish some 46,000 accounts out of a total of 4.1 million.

Scores of Jews attend a seder in Shanghai

SHANGHAI, China (JTA) -- More than 100 Jewish expatriates celebrated Passover at the Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai.

Among those attending the seder, led by Lubavitch Rabbi Shalom Greenberg, were survivors of Auschwitz.

It was the third time this year that Chinese officials allowed Jewish residents of Shanghai to use the synagogue to celebrate a Jewish holiday.

Russians arrest 13 neo-Nazis

MOSCOW (JTA) -- Russian police and security agents arrested 13 people after they found neo-Nazi materials during a crackdown on a group specializing in illegal trade in arms and explosives.

The group in St. Petersburg, led by members of a neo-Nazi group, operated under the cover of one of the city's youth scouting clubs.

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