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PLO's ambassador to Poland visits Auschwitz Khaled Soufan arrives at concentration camp as Israeli ambassador's guest. Visit meant to show solidarity with Jews' suffering during WWII, he says Roee Nahmias Published: 10.24.07, 22:56 / Israel Jewish Scene A rare visit: The PLO's ambassador to Poland visited the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp on Wednesday. Khaled Soufan was accompanied by David Peleg, the Israeli ambassador to Poland. The two spent some two and a half hours in the camp, during which Soufan told Peleg that only when one visits Auschwitz, can one grasp the scope of the Holocaust. Soufan, a former PLO ambassador...

Fresh Russian-Polish crisis looms 04.04.2007 Already tense Polish-Russian relations get worse following alleged closure of an exhibition of Russian war-time martyrology at Auschwitz. Slawek Szefs reports Kommiersant newspaper has claimed the closure of the Russian exhibition at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum is a way of pressuring Moscow to officially admit that the Soviet Army had occupied parts of Polish territory during World War Two. Jaroslaw Mensfelt, spokesman for the Museum, says four years ago the Russian side decided to establish a new national exhibition, so the natural consequence was to close the old one in order to prepare and mount another,...

http://www.adnki.com/index_2Level_English.php?cat=Politics&loid=8.0.343902337&par=0 IRAN: HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS INVITE AHMADINEJAD TO AUSCHWITZ (AKI) - by Ahmad Rafat - Noah Flug, the president of the International Association of Holocaust Srvivors, has sent a letter to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad offering to accompany him on a guided tour of Auschwitz. Flug, an 81-year-old retired economist, lives in Jerusalem. He was only 14 when the Nazis occupied his home town Lodz, in Poland, forcing his family to move inside the ghetto. Two years later Noah was in the concentration camp at Auschwitz, then he was moved to Mathausen and subsequently to Ebensee, where he was freed by...