Polish businessman Aleksander Gudzowaty will open a
tolerance centre in Jerusalem promoting peace between Israelis and
Palestinians, local media said Monday.
The centre will also "promote the name of Poland," Gudzowaty, one
of the country's wealthiest men, told the weekly Wprost. The centre
is set to open in March 2013.
An advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the
former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz last month after Gudzowaty
invited him to Poland. Ziad al-Bandak, a Christian, visited the site
where Nazis killed some 1.5 million people, mostly Jews, during their
occupation of Poland in World War II.
Gudzowaty funded a tolerance monument unveiled in 2008 in
Jerusalem that features two halves of a broken column with an olive
tree growing from the centre.
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Aug. 27, 2012
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