Friday May 12, 2006
New monument to commemorate 1946 Polish pogrom
by ruth ellen gruber
jta
kielce, poland The American son of Holocaust survivors is creating Kielce’s first permanent public memorial to Poland’s most infamous episode of postwar violence against Jews.
The monument, designed by New York-born artist Jack Sal, is to be unveiled July 4, the 60th anniversary of the Kielce pogrom, an attack by a Polish mob that killed 42 Jewish Holocaust survivors and injured another 50 or so.
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According to the artist, "The opportunity to create a work to bring people to visit a monument in the public park of Kielce will allow a meeting of the past and present out in the open, a forum of great importance for this wound of Planty Street to begin to heal."
http://www.jewishsf.com/content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/29210/format/html/displaystory.html
http://www.jacksal.com/permanent_installations/kielce_memorial.html
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