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New Polish foreign minister saved Jews from Holocaust

by WROCLAW, Poland (JTA) -- Poland's choice of an Auschwitz survivor as new foreign minister has been enthusiastically welcomed by, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, 78, was granted honorary Israeli citizenship, and made a Righteous Gentile by the Yad Vashem Holocaust M

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Bartoszewski served briefly as foreign minister in 1995. During his tenure, he created the post of special Polish Ambassador to the Jewish Diaspora as part of his decades-long commitment to improving relations between Poles and Jews.

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