Poland bids to reclaim forgotten past as haven for Jews
Reuters
2014-10-27
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It was on Polish soil that Nazi Germany carried out one of the darkest acts of the Holocaust: expelling Jews from the Warsaw ghetto -- many destined for concentration camps in Poland. Footage shows children walking past fences at Auschwitz. For those that survived, starvation became a way of life. Millions of Jews died in World War Two -- many exterminated in concentration camps, where clothing, or in some cases human hair, is all that was left behind.
Now, Poland wants is to re-connect with its other role in Jewish history, as a home for 1,000 years to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities.
The country will take a step in that direction Tuesday with the opening of the main exhibition at Warsaw's newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It's a project that sets out to remember not just how Jews in Poland died, but how they lived, says Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich.
CHIEF RABBI OF POLAND, MICHAEL SCHUD
It was on Polish soil that Nazi Germany carried out one of the darkest acts of the Holocaust: expelling Jews from the Warsaw ghetto -- many destined for concentration camps in Poland. Footage shows children walking past fences at Auschwitz. For those that survived, starvation became a way of life. Millions of Jews died in World War Two -- many exterminated in concentration camps, where clothing, or in some cases human hair, is all that was left behind.
Now, Poland wants is to re-connect with its other role in Jewish history, as a home for 1,000 years to one of the world's biggest Jewish communities.
The country will take a step in that direction Tuesday with the opening of the main exhibition at Warsaw's newly built Museum of the History of Polish Jews. It's a project that sets out to remember not just how Jews in Poland died, but how they lived, says Chief Rabbi of Poland Michael Schudrich.
CHIEF RABBI OF POLAND, MICHAEL SCHUD
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