Itongadol.- Fourteen Muslim clerics from across the globe will visit the former Nazi Auschwitz death camp in southern Poland this week as part of a Holocaust awareness and anti-genocide program, organizers said Friday.
"This is an opportunity for imams who are influential in their communities to look at the Holocaust first hand and to go to Auschwitz, to see what that kind of hatred led to," Poland\’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich told AFP.
"It\’s to make sure that civilization doesn\’t fail again."
"This is an opportunity for imams who are influential in their communities to look at the Holocaust first hand and to go to Auschwitz, to see what that kind of hatred led to," Poland\’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich told AFP.
"It\’s to make sure that civilization doesn\’t fail again."
The site was one of six German death camps set up in occupied Poland, a country which was home to pre-war Europe\’s largest Jewish community.
Among the camp\’s other victims were tens of thousands of non-Jewish Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies, and anti-Nazi resistance fighters from across Europe.