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(IsraelNN.com) Polish minister of state Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka said that President Shimon Peres was invited to participate in ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising because the government wants the ceremonies this week "to bring together Jews and Poles." President Peres has landed in Poland, where he was born, and will join survivors of the uprising at Warsaw's Monument to the Heroes of the Ghetto.

Three sections of the ghetto wall still are visible, measuring 10 to 20 feet (three to six meters) high.  The ceremonies have been moved up to this week in order to prevent desecration of the Sabbath, which this year marks the day when the uprising began in 1943.