Relations between Poland and Israel are improving in all areas, according to Kalman Sultanik who was reelected president of the American Federation of Polish Jews this week.
Addressing the Federation’s annual conference here Sunday, marking 1,000 years of Jewish life in Poland, Sultanik spoke of encouraging signs that Israel and Poland are drawing closer after 20 years without diplomatic ties. He stressed that the content of their relations, for example, cultural exchanges, are more important than their formality.
Nevertheless, reporting in his recent meeting with Joseph Cyrek, chairman of the Polish Parliamentary Commission on Foreign Affairs, Sultanik said steps are being taken to restore diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Cyrek told him that Poland is also very much interested in improving its relations with the Jewish community in the United States, Sultanik said. He said another encouraging development was the assurance given him from Warsaw that the Polish government and the Catholic Church have agreed to remove a Carmelite convent from the site of the Auschwitz death camp.
CORRECTION The name of the president of the Workmen’s Circle was inadvertently misspelled in the March 25 Daily News Bulletin. The correct spelling is Barnett Zumoff.
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