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Poland abandons children's role in re-enacting extermination of Jewish ghetto

Polish plans for children to take part in a re-enactment of the wartime extermination of Bedzin's Jewish ghetto have been shelved following criticism from Jewish groups.

Jewish community groups condemned the involvement of young children in role-play depictions of the 1943 destruction of the southern Polish city's ghetto saying they should have no place in the re-creation of the "mass murder" of thousands of people.

But Adam Szydlowski, the organiser of the event, stressed that they were no "harrowing scenes" such as executions in the re-enactment, explaining that his goal was "to teach the history of our city"....

Read entire article at Telegraph (UK)