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Article: AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD: Leadership of Poland's Jews passes to
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- May 30, 1997
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency
05-30-1997
AROUND THE JEWISH WORLD: Leadership of Poland's Jews passes to younger generation
By Ruth E. Gruber
ROME, May 29 (JTA) -- The Holocaust survivor generation has ceded the helm of Poland's Jewish community to a new, younger generation of leaders.
It is a move that could prove a landmark in the revival of Jewish life in Poland.
Meeting in Warsaw Monday, the newly elected board of the Union of Jewish Congregations in Poland chose as its new president 49-year-old Jerzy Kichler, from the western city of Wroclaw.
Kichler, the first person to hold the post who was born after the Shoah, replaces Holocaust survivor Pawel Wildsztajn, who has been named honorary ...