Warsaw opens Internet site devoted to images of city's prewar Jewish life

Article from:
Jerusalem Post
Article date:
May 24, 2002
Author:
Internet Site

Jerusalem Post

05-24-2002

Headline: Warsaw opens Internet site devoted to images of city's prewar Jewish life
Byline: Internet Site
Edition; Daily
Section: Jewish World
Page: 07

Friday, May 24, 2002 -- WARSAW - Warsaw's mayor inaugurated an Internet site on Wednesday devoted to images and descriptions of 54 key locations of Jewish life in the Polish capital before World War II.

"The Jewish part has been destroyed," Wojciech Kozak said. "Today we live in a completely different city, but we owe remembrance to those people, to the old capital."

Before Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, about 400,000 of Warsaw's 1.3 million residents were Jewish. Most ended up among the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust.

The Internet site includes prewar and modern pictures of buildings and streets of the old Jewish district and maps of the wartime Jewish ghetto. Descriptions are in Polish and English. A Hebrew version is planned.

On the Net: http://jewish.sites. warszawa.um.gov.pl