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erected five times and each has
been torn down.
In 1968, a government spon-
sored purge forced 25,000 of
Poland's 30,000 remaining
Jews to flee the country. One
thousand years of a Jewish
presence in this land and 1,000
years of pogroms.
We left Poland with tears,
swelled emotions, hatred and
questions. Hundreds of ques-
tions. Questions unanswered.
Questions unanswerable.
We felt sorrow and remorse
for the 5,000 remaining Jews.
Their average is 77. Many of
the men are married to Polish
women. They just want to live
out their years peacefully. The
American Jewish Joint Distri-
bution Committee supports
them with food and community
stipends. Our presence seemed
to offer them a remote associa-
tion with world Jewry, but this
is not their prime need nor
greatest desire.
Except for these few remain-
ing people and museums, noth-
ing vibrantly Jewish remains
to be seen or felt in Poland. The
Jews were 1,000-year tran-
sients. They used the land to
study, educate, propagate and
die. They and their culture
have finally moved out.
The accomplishments and
history of Polish Jewry have
been exported and survive in
Israel, the United States,
- Western Europe, South
America and elsewhere.
Judaism lived before there was
a Poland and it will live long
after.
Poland has slammed the
door on us for the last time.
There is no reason to sneak
back in. Don't visit Poland.

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cil as of Jan. 1. Unfortunately,
due to personal reasons, one
week before this time he
backed out.
This is not a very unusual set
of circumstances and we are
committed to resume the
search. What is unusual, is
that a newspaper could print
an editorial without calling up
the responsible parties for
comment or even attempting
minimally to attain their facts.
What is unusual, is that no
investigation or reporting has
ever appeared in your news-
paper into the non profit aspect
of community Kashrus versus
the individual profit-
motivated organizations.
Not one word has appeared
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the very popular certification
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responsibilities that it shoul-
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supervision. As the represen-
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binate, that is our mandate.
We are also aware and have
been pursuing the expansion of
services that we provide for the
benefit of the community.
By demanding a director of
Kashrus, you have simply re-
peated a resolution accepted
unanimously five months ago
for the need of additional per-
sonnel to assist us in this task.
In the ensuing time, our search
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land this bit of culture.
We visited the Jewish
museum in Warsaw. It ap-
peared as though the lights
were turned on just for our ar-
rival. The Polish guides as-
sured us that students toured
the museum frequently. The
museum director, an elderly
Jew, told us this was not so.
We left Warsaw, which has a
modern facade but a 1930
mood, and flew to Cracow. We
rode through the countryside
which remains 19th century
Europe. There were horse-
drawn carts, peasant farmers
bent over their hand tools and
churches everywhere. We fol-
lowed the steeples to Au-
schwitz, the Nazi's largest
death-camp. With German ef-
ficiency and Polish coopera-
tion, Auschwitz could gas
26,000 Jews a day.
Auschwitz is now a museum
and a memorial to all those kil-
led there. The large Jewish
section was only opened to
foreign tourists — upon their
request. The guide told us that
Auschwitz claimed victims
from 17 European countries.
However, "Poles were the
greatest number." How ironic
that although Jews lived in the
land for 1,000 years, they were
never considered Polish. Yet,
upon their death in Auschwitz,
they were counted as Poles.
Our Jewish guides filled us
in on Jewish history in post-
World War II Poland. In 1947,
50 Jews were stoned to death in
a small city. These Jews were
accused of killing a Polish
youth and using his blood to
make matzah. Memorials to
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