‘Witnesses in uniform’: Israeli Police on Holocaust memorial visit in Poland

The delegation is visiting several concentration camps and memorial sites and are accompanied by Holocaust survivor Shela Altaraz and her granddaughter.

By TAMARA ZIEVE
Updated: OCTOBER 24, 2018 02:38
Israel Police posing in formation for at one of the historical sites during the Poland delegation (photo credit: ISRAEL POLICE)
Israel Police posing in formation for at one of the historical sites during the Poland delegation
(photo credit: ISRAEL POLICE)
A delegation of 180 Israeli policemen is currently in Poland, visiting WWII memorial sites and Nazi concentration camps under the banner “witnesses in uniform,” accompanied by Holocaust survivor Shela Altaraz and her granddaughter.
On Monday, on the second day of their visit, the officers visited the Treblinka death camp, where the Jewish community of Štip, Macedonia – formerly Yugoslavia, where Altaraz was born – was murdered. According to Yad Vashem, Altaraz is the sole survivor of that Jewish community.
The police officers formed a human Star of David to honor the memory of the victims and, standing in the middle of them, Altaraz shared her testimony.
The delegation includes commanders, commissioned and non-commissioned officers and representatives of bereaved families as well as police officers who were wounded in the line of duty from various districts, divisions and ranks.