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Article: Poland hopes to change its image with Jews Lack of Jewish population, history of Nazi terror make country's mission difficult
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 27, 1998
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For most, it was their first trip to Poland: hundreds of Jewish
teenagers from the United States, Israel and around the world,
seeing the sites of Nazi destruction in sleek double-decker buses.
After several days of touring the old Jewish district of Krakow,
the vast Jewish cemetery in Warsaw and the scant remains of the
Jewish ghetto there, some students from Miami offered their
impressions:
"Gloomy." "Uncivilized." And "no Jews."
These are impressions Poland would like to change, against the
force of history and the potent reminders of how Jewish life here
was extinguished. While not discouraging tourist interest in the
Holocaust, the Polish government is taking pains to lighten its ...