30 August 2007
The Polish city of Kielce has commemorated the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto by its Nazi occupiers. A Menorah-shaped monument was unveiled to remember the city’s 20,000 Jews killed in the Holocaust, on the 65th anniversary of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto set up by the Nazis. Poland's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich, led a prayer for the dead in the presence of the city mayor, residents and representatives of the German and Israeli embassies during a ceremony marking the unveiling of the steel monument, the Polish news agency PAP reported. The Nazis, who occupied Poland during World War II, sent three groups of Jews to the death camp of Treblinka in September 1942. They also killed between 1,200 and 1,500 Jews, including pregnant women and children, on the spot. The memorial was designed by a survivor of the killings, Marek Cecula
