Poland is ready for a “new chapter” in its relations with the Jewish people, the nation’s president said during a visit to Israel. Hoping to defuse an ongoing source of tensions, Aleksander Kwasniewski said Warsaw is trying to enact legislation that would govern the status of concentration camps in his country. Such legislation could end a dispute prompted by the recent erection of hundreds of crosses at the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp.
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