Warsaw University unveils plaque honouring memory of past Jewish students victimised by Polish antisemitism 

The University of Warsaw has unveiled a plaque honouring the memory of its past Jewish students victimised by Polish antisemitism. 

Polish laws introduced in the 1930s required Jewish students to sit only in assigned areas at the back of lecture theatres, referred to as “ghetto seats”.

This practice originated in 1935 at the Polytechnic in Lviv, and by 1937 it became law and was applied to academic institutions throughout Poland. 

The unveiling ceremony was attended by Yacov Livine, the Israeli Ambassador to Poland, who said: “We must remember the dark parts in our joint history as well as the enlightened ones.”

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