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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
recently visited Yad Vashem.
During his first visit to Israel,
Prime Minister Tusk toured Yad Vashem’s Holocaust History Museum
and Children’s Memorial, participated in a wreath-laying ceremony
in the Hall of Remembrance and signed the Official Visitors’ Book.
During the visit, Poland’s Minister of
Culture Bogdan Zdrojewski presented Chairman of the Yad Vashem
Directorate Avner Shalev with the gold Medal for Merit to Culture
(“Gloria Artis”) in recognition of his contribution to the
preservation of the memory of the Holocaust. The medal, awarded in
three classes, gold, silver and bronze, has been conferred since
1991 to both Polish and foreign nationals who are active in the
field of Polish culture and arts.
At the conclusion of his visit, the
Prime Minister said: “There are places and times that are so
emotional that it is difficult to find the words… Thanks to the
tremendous efforts of the people at Yad Vashem, people can learn
as much about themselves as they can the history… The fact that I
was joined today by Righteous Among the Nations Vladyslav
Bartoszewski is very important to me on a personal level. If not
for the Righteous Among the Nations, it would have been better
that the world not exist at all.” |
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Prime Minister Tusk studies a
display of “Schindler’s List” during his visit of the
Holocaust History Museum |
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Prime Minister Tusk places a
wreath on behalf of the Polish government during the memorial
ceremony in the Hall of Remembrance |
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Polish Minister of Culture
Zdrojewski shakes Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate Avner
Shalev’s hand after presenting him with the “Gloria Artis”
Medal of Honor. Between them- Prime Minister Tusk |
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