Poland is not a cemetery and Polish Jews are not all dead, the head of the cultural institution of Polish Jewry said Monday, on the eve of International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Artur Hofman urged Israel to send its youths "to see the community as well not only death camps." "Israel's Ministry of Education annually sends thousands of students to Poland, but they're never taken to see our community," Hofman said at the office of his organization, the Social-Cultural Association of Jews in Poland, which boasts about 2,000 members.
Dozens of non-Jewish Poles come to the Jewish theater and culture compound. They come to see plays in Polish but also in Yiddish, with simultaneous translation to Polish through headsets.
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