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Last update - 16:12 08/09/2007 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. Advertisement 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. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/JWorld.jhtml?contrassID=19&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0 ">More Jewish World news and features Bookmark to del.icio.us   JDate wins the 'Oscars' The leading Jewish dating Web site is an official honoree of the Webby Awards. 'Worse than Nazi camp' A Libyan envoy to the UN says the situation in Gaza is worse than in concentration camps.   1.   fairness 16:43  |  realism 08/09/07   2.   Double standards 18:03  |  Flis 08/09/07   3.   Actually the law seems to be in the US 18:21  |  Jackie 08/09/07   4.   re: #1 fairness 19:15  |  Zahara 08/09/07   5.   "pre-World War Two Jewish cemetery"? 20:45  |  aynsof 08/09/07   6.   # 1 Fairness 21:08  |  Sammy 08/09/07   7.   lets see if the poles learned anything 21:24  |  ralph 08/09/07   8.   re: #1 fairness 21:28  |  D 08/09/07   9.   response to several posts 22:44  |  realism 08/09/07   10.   Most of Europe is a Jewish cemetery 22:45  |  Jesus 08/09/07   11.   to number 8 22:51  |  Justine 08/09/07   12.   Some additional info and a question to Ralph @ 7 00:03  |  Chris 09/09/07   13.   Some additional info and a question to Ralph @ 7 00:03  |  Chris 09/09/07   14.   #3 16:44  |  Bruno 14/09/07   15.   to #7, ralph 07:03  |  John Bull 28/01/08   16.   Sammy Gaza 15:08  |  Ian 28/01/08   17.   #13- John Bull Summarizes it Perfectly! 06:47  |  Donna Ellis 25/04/08

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