A former leader of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, Stefan Grayek, who is chairman of the World Organization of Jewish Partisans, Fighters and Former Concentration Camp Inmates, returned last night from an official visit to Poland where he attended the deliberations of the International Committee on Auschwitz. Grayek said upon return that he was given a mandate from the Polish authorities to invite representatives of Israeli organizations to take part in the planning of a new section in the Auschwitz Holocaust Museum, which will replace the old one which was criticized for being inadequate.
The Yad, Vashem Authority and the Ghetto Fighters Museum at Kibbutz Lohamei Hagetaot (Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz) reportedly will send their representatives to join the first working session on the Jewish pavilion which is scheduled for December in Warsaw and in Auschwitz.
The existing pavilion in Block 26 was closed due to objections from Jewish organizations that it did not express the magnitude of the Jewish suffering and resistance. The new pavilion which will open next year will contain a large display on Jewish victims of the Holocaust in Europe, on fighting inside the ghettos and on the role of Palestinian Jews in fighting the Nazis.
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