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The Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw will break ground June 26.
The $58 million museum is set to open between 2009 and 2010. It will showcase the 1,000-year history of Polish Jews, who comprised 10 percent of the country’s population before the Holocaust — more than in any other European nation.
The museum, which has a board of international experts, will focus on how Jews lived together with Poles for centuries, but will also confront head-on the subject of anti-Semitism.
The groundbreaking will include the signing of a construction act to be sealed in a glass-topped space below the ground, which will also hold fragments of the buildings and streets that were destroyed by the Nazis during the1943 Ghetto Uprising.
