Maciej Hunia submitted letters of credentials to the president of Israel, Isaak Herzog, on Monday, and was formally accredited as Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to Israel. We've been waiting for this for a long time. We are peculiarly happy after 4 years..." said Herzog, welcoming Hunia.
The paper in a affirmative speech describes that during the gathering Hunia and Herzog discussed the common past of Jews and Poles and that both met many Holocaust survivors “In the case of Huni, this besides active non-Jewish survivors” – he noted “Jerusalem Post”.
In connection with the current war waged by Israel, Hunia said he visited Kibbuc Kfar Az, where about 90 people died during the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, and met with residents who survived the massacre.
The president of Israel has been in Poland many times
Herzog, who visited Poland many times, noted that these were always commemorative visits, and expressed his desire to come to events related to cooperation between both countries.
He besides mentioned that his father, Israel's first president, Chaim Herzog, had visited Lomza, where his grandpa was born.
During this visit in May 1992, Chaim Herzog unveiled a commemorative plaque at Auschwitz. "The monument was made of Jerusalem's stone, which symbolized the defeat of the final solution to the judaic issue," adds the Jerusalem Post.
