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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

MILTON JACOBY

Special to The Jewish News

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uprising in 1943. This was
disclosed by Stefan Grayek,
president of the World Feder-
ation of Polish Jews and
himself a Warsaw Ghetto sur-
vivor. Grayek, who is now an
Israeli citizen and frequently
visits his homeland, played a
major role in the 40th an-
niversary ceremonies in War-
saw in 1983.
Grayek said that the 1988
ceremonies will evoke a strong
and universal response. Par-
ticipation by Jewish dele-
gates from all over the world
is expected to substantially
exceed the 1983 attendance,
and Israel is expected to be
totally supportive of the
ceremonies.
These expectations were
confirmed by Zbigniew
Unger, head of the Congress
Department of Orbis, the
Polish National Tourist Of-
fice. Unger organized the two-
week program three years ago
and is quietly enthusiastic
about prospects for the 45th
anniversary.
There have been no formal
relations between Poland and
Israel since the Six Day War,
but mutual friendship exists.
Groups of Israelis in substan-
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tial numbers arrive every
other week to tour Warsaw,
Cracow and other cities and
to make poignant pilgrimages
to the former concentration
camps.
At the same time, the
Polish government has de-
cided to undertake an ex-
change of "represenatives of
mutual interests." Three
Polish officials were sent to
lel Aviv in September to han-
dle visas and consular duties
and commercial and cultural
matters. And their Israeli
counterparts, in turn, arrived
in Warsaw to reopen the
Israel Embassy building
closed since 1967.
A heartening factor is the
apparent decrease of PLO in-
fluence in Poland since this
reporter's last visit in 1983.
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in Warsaw. This is a far cry
from the 3.5 million before
World War II.
And yet, the Polish govern-
ment seems intent on pre-
serving the vestiges, and on
restoring the desecrated
places, symbols and monu-
ments of an annihilated peo-
ple. It has even gone to the
extent of creating a Jewish
Cultural society with 14
branches throughout Poland,
with perhaps 3,000 members,
mainly non-observant Jews
and their non-Jewish spouses.
The primary function of
these clubs is to keep the
Jewish flame burning, to
study current trends in
Judaism and to learn more
about Israel. Lectures and
cultural performances are
regular features of the socie-
ty's annual program. The
society publishes the ex-
cellent weekly newspaper,
Folks-Sztyme, in Yiddish and
Polish. Hebrew is a popular
subject at the university but
almost all of those taking the
course are non-Jews.
The sad fact is that inter-
marriage is pervasive and in-

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no formal
relations between
Poland and Israel
since the six-day
war, but mutual
friendship exists.

evitable. There seems no way
that the increasingly rare
Jewish family unit can - re-
main intact. "How can I raise
my child to be a good Jew and
continue our traditions, if he -,
is in a Catholic environment;
if he or she can't find a Jewish
friend, let alone a Jew to
marry?" was the rueful ques-
tion often heard by this
reporter.
In Cracow, there were 60,000
Jews before the war; now
there are less than 600. In the
year 2000, the head of its
community observed, "we
will be almost extinct. We
have precious few sons and
daughters to maintain our
faith."
And yet, the age-old in-
domitable spirit endures. The
Religious Union helps man-
age the synagogues, takes
care of the cemeteries, the
mikvahs, runs kosher can-
teens in eight cities and is
preparing to open an attrac-
tive kosher restaurant in the
center of Warsaw for foreign
visitors. They cannot afford a
resident shochet, but there
are monthly visits from an
Hungarian expert.
Observant Jews seem quite
well on their own, when one

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