Mayor Jerzy Majewski of Warsaw has accepted an invitation to visit Israel as new relationships appeared to be developing between Israel and Poland in the spheres of culture and historical research with respect to the once great Polish-Jewish community which perished in the Holocaust.
The invitation was extended by Deputy Mayor Yitzhak Artzi of Tel Aviv, who was a member of the delegation of former Jewish underground fighters who battled the Nazis in Poland during World War II. No date has been set for the visit but it may coincide with the visit to Tel Aviv next fall of the Warsaw Jewish Theater.
The delegation which visited Poland last year to mark the 35th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz and to commemorate the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was headed by Stefan Grayek, chairman of the World Federation of Jewish Fighters, Partisans and Nazi Death Camp Survivors. The group visited the Jewish pavilion at Auschwitz where they placed a wreath at the international monument and at the monument to the Warsaw Ghetto fighters.
In their talks with Polish leaders, it was agreed to exchange documents between scientific and research institutions in Israel and Poland on the 1000 years of Jewish life in Poland. A delegation of history professors from Israeli universities will visit Poland shortly to obtain copies of documents in the Polish archives.
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