The chief rabbi of Poland says it is “sad” that US President Donald Trump chose to skip a visit to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising memorial.
Michael Shudrish accompanied Trump’s daughter Ivanka to the site, where she laid a wreath and recited kaddish before visiting the POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews located next to the memorial.
Schudrich calls Ivanka’s presence at the memorial “very, very important… not only because she’s a Jew, because her grandparents-in-law are survivors of the Holocaust, but also as a human being it’s important.”
“But it’s sad because her father President Trump is the first US president in 25 years not to visit the Warsaw Ghetto Heroes Monument,” he tells AFP.
POLIN spokeswoman Zaneta Czyzniewska tells AFP that the museum only “found out today” that Ivanka Trump would be visiting the monument dedicated to the Jewish partisans who took up arms against Nazi German forces in a doomed revolt.
— AFP
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