Blog 250. Wow. It’s time for something sentimental and serious. I was looking at a wooden information board about the history of the Jewish community here on the outer edges of Warsaw. 70 percent of the locals were Jewish in my area before the war. Then, there’s a stone commemorating the Jews living here – the message in memoriam written in Polish and Hebrew. As you know, traces of Jewish history can be found all over the place in Poland – the buildings, people’s last names, even names (Estera, for example). Abandoned cemeteries. I also notice definite characterological similarities between Poles and Israelis.

We sometimes ask: are future generations going to remember us, especially after a major conflict breaks out, resulting in deaths of millions, burned down cities, and exclusion zones set up to keep........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)