Poland: Catholic Church urges Poles to care for Jewish Heritage sites

Poland: Catholic Church urges Poles to care for Jewish Heritage sites

The Catholic Church in Poland has called on Polish Catholics to care for Jewish cemeteries, synagogues and other physical traces of the pre-war Jewish population, and also care for the graves of Holocaust victims.

Jewish cemetery, Baligrod, Poland

The Polish Episcopate made the appeal in a statement issued Thursday — the day marked in Poland as the church’s 18th Day of Judaism, an observance aimed at promoting Catholic-Jewish dialogue and relations.

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