3.5 million Jews lived in
Poland.
By the end of the war in
1945, more than 90 percent
of Polish Jewry had perish-
ed, including hundreds of
thousands in death camps
such as Auschwitz,
Treblinka, Belzec and
Chelmno.
The majority of Jews who
survived emigrated to the
West after the war.
The establishment of the
Iron Curtain and the tension
of the Cold War closed
Poland and the rest of East-
ern Europe to the West, and
the Communist government
submerged the Holocaust
into the general struggle
against fascism, not men-
tioning the Jewish aspect of
the tragedy.
As a result, many of those
Polish Christians who saved
Jews during the war have
never been publicly ac-
knowledged in Poland, and
many were hesitant to come
forth with information about
their actions because of the
unfriendly political and so-
cial climate.
Calling on the Polish
government and people to
honor these rescuers, Mr.
Foxman said, "Though
Poland is the sight of the
largest Jewish tragedy, I
believe, though I cannot
prove it, that Poland is also
the place where the largest
number of gentiles saved
Jews.
"I hope this conference
will help to reverse a trend
and honor those righteous
gentiles and write a new
library telling of those na-
tional heroes," Mr. Foxman
said.
As part of the conference
proceedings, the Israeli am-
bassador to Poland, Miron
Gordon, was to issue medals
from Israel's Yad Vashem
Holocaust memorial muse-
um and confer honorary
Israeli citizenship on the
rescuers.
Describing the academic
side of • the conference,
Roman Kent, conference
chairman, said, "We have
tried to bring together
leading scholars to discuss
the Holocaust and the mean-
ing of indifference.
"We are aski:-.6 what that
means today in our times
with Somalia and Serbia,"
said Mr. Kent.
The Jewish Foundation for
Christian Rescuers was
founded in the mid-1980s by
Rabbi Harold Schulweis in
Los Angeles and psychol-
ogist Eva Fogelman in New
York, in an effort to honor
those gentiles who saved
Jews as well as provide them
with financial support.

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