News - Unidentified persons attempt to set fire to synagogue in Poland

Unidentified persons have attempted to set fire to the synagogue in downtown Warsaw. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, citing the country's chief rabbi, Michael Schudrich. "Rabbi Schudrich writes that someone tried to set the Nozyk Synagogue on fire with a Molotov cocktail. Thank God, no one was hurt," the Polish FM wrote on X—formerly Twitter. The police of the Polish capital have been informed about this incident and are already investigating it, Polish media report. This synagogue, which is the main synagogue of the Union of Jewish Religious Communities in Poland, is the only synagogue that survived the Second World War in Warsaw. But in 1997, it was set on fire, as a result of which its lobby was damaged.