December 16, 2005
The remains of 34 Jewish inmates of a Nazi concentration camp near Stuttgart (Germany) have been buried in a religious ceremony attended by around 400 representatives of Jewish organizations and the public. Holocaust survivors were also present when Meir Lau, a former chief rabbi of Israel, remembered the victims by saying: "They have come to us a second time as a witness of humanity and a memorial to the Holocaust." Benjamin Gelhorn and Eugen Stern, both survivors of the Echterdingen concentration camp near Stuttgart, spoke the Kaddish. The remains were discovered at excavation works at a US Air Base in October. At the ceremony, the governor of the state of Baden-W