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Article: The silence lifts on Poland's Jews
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2007
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A DUTCH child survivor of the Holocaust, I recently visited
Poland, where 30 members of my family had been murdered, including 10
cousins younger than 14. None of these relatives has a grave; their
ashes dot the countryside or blow in the winds. I found Poland
lifting a long silence about its Jews - those who lived there and
those, like my family, who were brought there to be murdered.
Poles are finally beginning to deal with these ghosts in their
midst. The more thoughtfully they continue to do so, the more
truthful - and perhaps the more consoling - the memories of the
Jewish experience of Poland are likely to be.
Everyone knew that Poland had turned a corner when in 2001 then-
President ...