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New Jewish History Museum in Poland

Awesome, the history of Jewish life in Poland needs to be told.

The Museum of the History of Polish Jews, going up in the heart of the former Warsaw Ghetto, will narrate the 1,000-year history of Jews in Poland. It is a history that is unknown to many and that has been overshadowed by the tragedy of the Holocaust, which was carried out by Germany in occupied Poland.

The highly anticipated museum is expected to open in the fall of 2013, in the 70th anniversary year of the doomed Warsaw ghetto uprising.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was a doomed attempt to fight back against the Nazis, despite certain death. It was either die passively by being carted off the the concentration and death camps or go down fighting.

Related link: Jewish history museum in Poland gains crucial donations ahead of 2013 opening ~ Washington Post

Note: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is not to be confused with the Warsaw Uprising a year later, which was inadequately supported by the allies and actively thwarted by the Soviets, which ended in defeat and the almost total destruction of the city by the Nazis, before the Soviets rolled in.

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