Members of Canada’s Polish community are criticizing Prime Minister Jean Chretien for not inviting any of their representatives to join him in a visit to Auschwitz. Chretien was accompanied to the former death camp by representatives of the Canadian Jewish Congress, including its national president, Moshe Ronen, and by Ronen’s 67-year-old father, Mordecai, an Auschwitz survivor. Chretien’s office described his trip to Auschwitz, made at the start of a weeklong European trip, as a personal visit.
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