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Polish Jews to get Warsaw museum Poland Jews to get Warsaw museum
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Jewish leaders are to join dignitaries as construction begins of a permanent museum in the former Warsaw Ghetto. Jewish leaders and Poland's president have attended a ceremony to lay the cornerstone for a museum in the former Warsaw Ghetto.
PM Lech Kaczynski will attend a ceremony to break the ground at the site, which will mark more than 1,000 years of Jewish history in Poland. President Lech Kaczynski said Jewish life flourished in Poland before millions of Jews were killed by Nazi Germany in the Holocaust.
Poland was home to an estimated 3.5m Jews before World War II, with 400,000 of them in what became known as the Warsaw Ghetto. "The history of Jews is the history of my country, my people" he said.
Most were killed by the Nazis, and Poland's Jews now number about 100,000. Poland was home to about 3.5 million Jews before World War II, but most of them were killed by the Nazis.
Half of the six million Jews killed in the Holocaust were from Poland, and the country itself was the site of some of the most notorious Nazi German death camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor. Thousands more emigrated in 1968 after an anti-Semitic campaign by the then-ruling communists. The Jewish community in Poland today is estimated to be fewer than 50,000.
Poland was the site of some of the most notorious Nazi German death camps, including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Sobibor.
The new museum will be built next to a memorial for the Jews of Warsaw who resisted Nazi rule.The new museum will be built next to a memorial for the Jews of Warsaw who resisted Nazi rule.
The museum will focus on the history of Poland's Jewish community, which dates back to the 10th Century, as well as the story of the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust.The museum will focus on the history of Poland's Jewish community, which dates back to the 10th Century, as well as the story of the Nazi occupation and the Holocaust.
Construction is expected to take two years with the official opening scheduled for 2010.Construction is expected to take two years with the official opening scheduled for 2010.
The museum building has been designed by Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamaki and Ilmari Lahdelma and will feature glass and limestone.