Poland hopes to change its image with Jews Lack of Jewish population, history of Nazi terror make country's mission difficult

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: April 27, 1998| Author: ANNE THOMPSON | Copyright information

For most, it was their first trip to Poland: hundreds of Jewish teenagers from the United States, Israel and around the world, seeing the sites of Nazi destruction in sleek double-decker buses.

After several days of touring the old Jewish district of Krakow, the vast Jewish cemetery in Warsaw and the scant remains of the Jewish ghetto there, some students from Miami offered their impressions:

"Gloomy." "Uncivilized." And "no Jews." These are impressions Poland would like to ch...