Mazyr authorities ban Jewish memorial meeting

Mazyr town executive committee has banned a meeting of remembrance to local Jews who killed themselves during the Nazi occupation in 1941, the BelPAN news agency reports, quoting Yakov Gutman, president of the New York-based International Association of Belarusian Jews.

The meeting scheduled for 31 August was expected to mark the 70^th anniversary of a mass self-immolation of over 20 Mazyr Jews back in August 1941.