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Poland Denies Plans
For Ghetto Remnant
Montreal (JTA) — The
government of Poland has
assured representatives of
Canadian Jewry that the
city of Warsaw has no plans
to demolish the last remnant
of the Warsaw Ghetto,
namely the "Gate of Zelazna
No. 63."
The Polish Foreign Min-
istry, in a message to the
Canadian Jewish Congress,
stated that "neither the au-
thorities of the City of War-
saw nor those of the district
of Wola have ever passed a
decision authorizing the
pulling down of Zelazna 63
in Warsaw.
"On the contrary, the Of-
fice on the Preservation of
Monuments has launched
the procedure in order to
recognize the above-
mentioned building as a
historical monument," the
message said. It said the
building was put on a
"special list" of historical
monuments in Warsaw.
This sharply contrasts
with previous reports
reaching the CJC that the
last remnant of the ghetto
would be razed. Those
reports caused deep concern,
because the ghetto, which
played a major role in the
Jewish resistance movement
during the Holocaust, is re-
vered by Jews as a symbol of
courage.
The CJC had com-
municated with Polish Pres-
ident Lech Walesa and
Stanislaw Wyganowski, the
Warsaw city president, pro-
testing the planned move
after media reports to that
effect were received.
In a Feb. 9 meeting with
Poland's ambassador to
Canada, Alojzy Bartoszek,
the CJC was informed that
such a decision had not been
made.
Moshe Ronen, the CJC na-
tional executive chairman,
and Nathan Leipciger, a
Holocaust survivor and
chairman of Canada's Na-
tional Holocaust Remem-
brance Committee, express-
ed their appreciation for the
ambassador's prompt re-
sponse.
Mr. Leipciger also cited
the fact that April 1993
marks the 50th anniversary
of the Warsaw Ghetto upris-
ing, when the Jews there
bravely attempted the
ghetto's defense against
overwhelming odds.
He asked that a special
commemorative program be
instituted by the Polish
government. He told the
ambassador that signs at the
site of the former Auschwitz-
Birkenau death camp com-
plex were in need of repair
and suggested that the Eng-
lish language be more
uniformly used there.
Mr. Leipciger is a member
of an international advisory
committee planning a revi-
sion of memorials at the site.
He brought up several
other points at the meeting
with the Polish envoy,
among them a complaint
that visitors often visit only
Auschwitz and not
Birkenau, because of the
distance between them, thus
reducing the impact of the
camp where some 1.6 million
Jews were murdered.
Mr. Leipciger informed the
ambassador that a generous
donation, from former Holo-
caust Remembrance Com-
mittee Chairman Gerda
Frieberg of Toronto, was
used to purchase a bus to
transport visitors to
Birkenau from Auschwitz.
He asked for assurances that
the bus be used for this pur-
pose alone.
He also asked that an
abandoned 30-room house in
the area be refurbished and
used as a hostel, kosher res-
taurant and prayer facility
for Jewish visitors, noting
that there are already Prot-
estant and Catholic hostels
in the vicinity.
"At this time, we must en-
courage the future genera-
tion to visit this site," said
Mr. Leipciger. "This is the
biggest Jewish cemetery in
the world. To not have a
place to say a prayer is a real
shame," he said.
He also expressed indigna-
tion over the recent visit to
Auschwitz by Canadian
Holocaust revisionist and
publisher Ernst Zundel.
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