Poland - Across Poland, long-buried Jewish roots are poking above the surface. And in the shadow of Auschwitz concentration camp a remarkable social experiment is under way: a small, dedicated group of rabbis is trying to rekindle Judaism in a country that many Jews worldwide see as cursed terrain.
“After the Holocaust, many Poles had either left Poland or left Judaism,” Poland’s Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, says. Nervous of anti-Semitism, most of the remaining Jews went under cover.
Today, in families the secret is out. More than a hundred Polish Jews have been gathering in a summer camp in Wisla, a mountain resort close to the Czech border, to compare notes about their hidden lives. extended article [timesonline]