Germany has donated five million euros (equivlant to $7.3 million) to help build a new Jewish history museum in the Polish capital Warsaw.

“In this way, the federal government wants to make a new contribution to redressing the immeasurable suffering inflicted in the name of the Germans upon the Jews in this country, and thus upon Poland as a whole,” said German Ambassador Michael Gerdts at a ceremony in Warsaw.

“The Germans remain conscious of their responsibility for this tragic past,” he added.

When it opens in 2009-2010 it will host exhibitions spanning 900 years of Polish-Jewish history, and will be one of the world’s three largest Jewish museums alongside Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the Holocaust Memorial in Washington.

The museum is being built in the heart of the old Warsaw ghetto

(Source: EJP)