Museum of Jewish history opens in Poland
WARSAW - The presidents of Poland and Israel have joined Holocaust survivors for a ceremony to open a multimedia museum that tells the 1,000-year history of Jewish life in Poland on Tuesday.
The POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews is located at the site that once was the center of the Warsaw Ghetto. It uses documents, murals, touch screens and building reconstructions to show the richness of Poland's Jewish culture, which was wiped out in the Holocaust.
President Reuven Rivlin attended the open air ceremony on his first foreign trip to Poland. Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski was also in attendance at the monument that honors fighters of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
