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The Morning Star reprints here DAVID ROSENBERG’s speech at the public launch of Jewish Voice For Labour, at a conference fringe meeting attended by more than 200 people

A few weeks ago I was in Poland. My fifth visit to a country that many describe simply as the biggest Jewish graveyard. 

Three million of its 3.3 million pre-war Jewish population were exterminated by the nazis. Today it has a very right-wing government and active far-right groups. You see anti-semitic graffiti on some walls.

And yet in 15 Polish cities Jewish communities are reviving and growing. In Kazimierz, Krakow’s old Jewish quarter, there are several very old synagogues. 

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