Remains of Warsaw Ghetto victims buried; Polish families honored

The remains of 11 people believed to be Jews killed during the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising were buried have been in a ceremony. The bones, interred in the Polish capital's Jewish cemetery, were found several weeks ago during the renovation of a building that stood in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto during the Nazi occupation of Poland. While Warsaw rabbi Michael Schudrich said that there was no way to prove that the remains are those of Jewish victims of the 1943 revolt, the area in which they were found and the age of the bones suggested that this was most likely. The bones were laid in a pine coffin and lowered into the ground. Members of Warsaw's small Jewish community and Israeli ambassador David Peleg attended the ceremony. On Wednesday, Peleg honored two families in Poznan, in western Poland, for helping a 9-year-old Jewish boy who had escaped from a transport to the Auschwitz death camp during the war. The ambassador awarded them "Righteous Among the Nations" medals from Yad Vashem.