POLIN Museum a monument to history - Polish president
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a beautiful monument to history, Polish President Andrzej Duda said during a visit to the museum in Warsaw on Thursday.
The president expressed hope that the museum would be a model of good co-existence and ability to find a common language and tolerance.
President Duda stressed that every young Pole should visit the museum which was "an element of basic education and cultural background". The president expressed hope that a visit to the museum would become a permanent element of school education projects, like a visit to the Warsaw Rising Museum.
"The museum is amazing - not only the great architecture of the building, but above all the exhibition presenting 900 years of documented common history," the Polish president said.
He also expressed hope that young Jews from Israel, the U.S. and other countries coming to Poland to honour their close ones at Auschwitz would also visit POLIN. According to the president, the museum presentation of "the common history of our nations" is fantastic.
The Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened in April 2013. The Core Exhibition, presenting the thousand-year history of Polish Jews, opened in 2014. The museum stands in what was once the heart of Jewish Warsaw – an area which the Nazis turned into the Warsaw Ghetto during World War II. (PAP)
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