The Polish government and the Warsaw municipal authorities are planning to demolish the last standing wall of the former ghetto of Warsaw, an historical relic of a tragic era and a warning for the future. This was stated here by Hillel Zeidel, member of Knesset, who attended the conference on Soviet Jewry this weekend.
Zeidel told the JTA that he and his friends were trying to prevent the demolition of the ghetto wall, and that he had been discussing this problem with Lord Janner of Leicester, Alderman Michael Fidler, MP. and Greville Janner, MP. They told him that they would mobilize other interested members of Parliament and try to meet with the Polish Ambassador in an attempt to try and persuade the Polish government that it would be wrong to demolish the wall, whatever the planning issues involved may be.
Zeidel also told the JTA that he had discussed the problem with American, Canadian, Australian, Belgian and Dutch Jewish leaders, whose response was encouraging. “They will all try and rally public opinion in their countries to exert pressure on the Polish authorities,” he said.
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