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Construction of Museum of Polish Jews to begin in fall, to open in 2010
By DPA
Tags: Poland, Jews

WARSAW - Construction on the long-awaited Museum of the History of Polish Jews will begin in the Polish capital next fall, and the museum's doors are expected to open within three years.

Warsaw's chief architect, Michal Borowski, confirmed yesterday that work on the multimillion dollar multimedia facility would finally begin after more than a decade of preparation.

The museum will be built in an area of the city that was the center of Jewish life prior to World War II, but was then transformed by the Nazis into the Warsaw Ghetto. It will focus not only on the Holocaust, but also on the 800 years of Jewish life in Poland that the Holocaust obliterated. Poland's Jewish community numbered some 3.5 million prior to World War II, accounting for roughly 10 percent of the country's pre-war population. However, the vast majority died in the Holocaust.
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The building, designed by Finnish architects Rainer Mahlamaeki and Ilmar Lahdelma, will feature a symbolically ruptured facade opening onto undulating walls, an allusion to the parting of the Red Sea, through which Moses led the Jews from Egypt to Israel. Holocaust and Jewish history expert Professor Israel Gutman heads the team preparing the exhibits.

Financed by the Polish government, Warsaw City Council and private donors, the project will cost some $55 million. It is expected to attract some 250,000 to 500,000 visitors each year.
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  1.   Museum of Polish Jews in Warsaw 05:46  |  Simon Greenbaum 13/09/06
  2.   Lies again 09:25  |  Andrew S. 13/09/06
  3.   Jewish museum in Poland, to Simon 09:40  |  Oleg 13/09/06
  4.   #1 Simon 10:53  |  Maciej 13/09/06
  5.   what said my grandfather Z``L 11:02  |  Israel Winicki 13/09/06
  6.   Museum 12:08  |  Elijah 13/09/06
  7.   To Simon Greenbaum 13:29  |  Pawel 13/09/06
  8.   Israel and Simon - two knights of true... 14:23  |  Jakub 13/09/06
  9.   Childish behaviour 15:33  |  BP Diplomacy 13/09/06
  10.   Dear Simon. 15:55  |  Jerzy 13/09/06
  11.   To #5, grandson of a lover of animals 16:14  |  Chris 13/09/06
  12.   To Israel Winnicki. 16:18  |  Jerzy 13/09/06
  13.   Facts about Polish 16:40  |  michael 13/09/06
  14.   To Michael 17:04  |  Jerzy 13/09/06
  15.   WarsawJewish Museum 17:05  |  Crosschannel 13/09/06
  16.   Force-feeding 17:21  |  Jo 13/09/06
  17.   #2,#1 #7 #10, #12 #14 18:25  |  Haham me Bat Yam 13/09/06
  18.   To #17 and these who do not speak Polish 18:57  |  Chris 13/09/06
  19.   Fill It With The Arts Of The Jews! 19:15  |  Sam The Sham 13/09/06
  20.   T Haham me Bat Yam 19:46  |  Jerzy 13/09/06
  21.   To Sam the Sham 20:09  |  Pawel 13/09/06
  22.   Polaki 20:20  |  SR 13/09/06
  23.   To #18 Yourexplanation is BS 20:23  |  Haham me Bat Yam 13/09/06
  24.   To #18 Yourexplanation is BS 20:23  |  Haham me Bat Yam 13/09/06
  25.   Sczpilki 20:24  |  SR 13/09/06
  26.   To Haham # 18 20:35  |  Pawel 13/09/06
  27.   To SR # 24 20:41  |  Pawel 13/09/06
  28.   To SR (Szpilki) 20:42  |  Jerzy 13/09/06
  29.   To Pawel (#24) 20:50  |  Jerzy 13/09/06
  30.   To Jerzy # 29 21:05  |  Pawel 13/09/06
  31.   Mendel is not sure .... 22:08  |  Mendel the Mean 13/09/06
  32.   To Haham # 23 22:15  |  Chris 13/09/06
  33.   To Chris # 32 22:32  |  Pawel 13/09/06
  34.   To Jerzy, get a hold of your senses 22:58  |  Haham from Bat Yam 13/09/06
  35.   To Chris (#32) 23:18  |  Jerzy 13/09/06
  36.   Pawel & Jerzy 23:46  |  SR 13/09/06
  37.   polish museum 23:52  |  jorge schaulsohn 13/09/06
  38.   # 26 Pawel,You Poles cannot be clones of antisemitic people.. 23:59  |  Haham me Bat Yam 13/09/06
  39.   To Haham from Bat Yam (#34) 01:00  |  Jerzy 14/09/06
  40.   To SR (#36) 01:04  |  Jerzy 14/09/06
  41.   Museum of Polish Jews 01:59  |  Michael 14/09/06
  42.   to: german chancellor merkel 02:08  |  allen m. 14/09/06
  43.   #32 Polish usage of names endings 04:01  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  44.   # 31 Mendel the Mean 04:21  |  Haham from Bat Yam 14/09/06
  45.   to anti-Poles 04:45  |  JJ 14/09/06
  46.   # 37 Jorge. From my studies of history the majority 04:50  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  47.   # 22 SR I dealt with many Polish engineers in US and Canada 05:12  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  48.   To Haham me B`Y, and to #18 08:48  |  Andrew S. 14/09/06
  49.   To Haham # 42 - name endings 09:37  |  Pawel 14/09/06
  50.   Andrew S. 10:05  |  THR 14/09/06
  51.   To allen m. # 41 11:09  |  Pawel 14/09/06
  52.   To Haham me B`Y. 12:32  |  Andrew S. 14/09/06
  53.   #50 12:43  |  Andrew S. 14/09/06
  54.   Jerzy #40 15:16  |  SR 14/09/06
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  56.   # 45 Israelis and Jews in western world are not anti-polish 16:07  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  57.   # 48 Thank you Andrew 16:23  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  58.   # 48 Thank you Andrew 16:23  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  59.   # 49, Thank you Pawel 16:30  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  60.   `To Mr.Haham 17:22  |  JJ 14/09/06
  61.   To JJ # 60 18:13  |  Pawel Niezbecki 14/09/06
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  63.   To Haham 18:57  |  THR 14/09/06
  64.   # 63 Those are not lies. You are out of it 19:34  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  65.   Haham 21:44  |  THR 14/09/06
  66.   44. Haham 21:58  |  Mendel the Mean 14/09/06
  67.   # 66 To Mendel the Mean 22:56  |  Haham me Bat Yam 14/09/06
  68.   Too simplistic 01:33  |  Jacques Cukierkorn 15/09/06
  69.   # 65 SHR 03:23  |  Haham me Bat Yam 15/09/06
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  72.   To # 70 Victor I tried to find the quote by Mickiewicz 18:40  |  Haham me Bat Yam 16/09/06
  73.   quote by Mickiewicz 23:28  |  Victor 16/09/06
  74.   to # 22 02:11  |  Radek 17/09/06
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