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Pre-war Jewish cemetery found under Polish apartment building
By Reuters
Tags: Jewish cemetery, Holocaust 

Repair work on a tram line has come to a halt in the Polish city of Lodz after workers uncovered the remains of a pre-World War Two Jewish cemetery, a Polish newspaper said on Saturday.

The daily Rzeczpospolita said it was the oldest Jewish cemetery in the city and dated from 1811, but had been buried under a housing estate by communist authorities after the war, which devastated Poland.
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Poland's chief rabbi said he hoped a compromise could be found to respect the Jewish ban on disturbing human remains and the city's need to upgrade one of its main transport routes.

"Our goal is to find a solution that will enable respecting the dead whilst doing good for the living," the American-born rabbi, Michael Schurdrich, said.

Poland had a Jewish population of about 3.5 million before World War Two, some three million of whom, were killed in Nazi Germany's Holocaust. Many of the survivors left during the communist era. Pre-war Lodz was nearly one-third Jewish.

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