The Polish Parliament building was draped in black today in mourning for the Jewish Deputy Waclav Wislicki, who died suddenly yesterday following a heart attack.
Wislicki, who was elected in the Jewish quarter of Warsaw in the recent national polls, was to have taken his seat today when the Sejm opened its session.
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