Polish Jewish museum to open in April 2013

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- An ambitious museum devoted to the 1,000-year history of Poland's Jews will open on the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising, officials said Monday.

Some 500,000 visitors are expected each year to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews to view multimedia exhibits on the life and culture of Jews in Poland, their fate in the Holocaust and the present day, as Jewish culture is being gradually revived.

"The Jews were a part of the Polish landscape, now they are gone," said historian Marian Turski. "We want to fill in this vacuum."

"This (museum) is about people who were here, who created their works here, who contributed to the progress of the civilization," said Turski, who is head of the Jewish Historical Institute, which is cooperating on the project.

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1. Wonderful!

I hope to see it someday. I knew a Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor who told me the most hurtful thing was the Polish neighbors betraying their Jewish friends.

[Warren DeMontague]

2. Jews in Poland had an absolutely ATROCIOUS deal.

I'm glad someone is doing this.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. That will be a very interesting museum.

Poland has a very complicated history with Jews. There were times, when it was quite enjoyable, then, well...we know what happened and continues to happen.