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Ecumenical News International 06 June 2001 - Warsaw (ENI).
In a special church service Poland's Roman Catholic bishops have
asked forgiveness for the complicity of church members in a wartime
massacre of Jews. At a service on 27 May in All Saints Church,
close to the site of Warsaw's wartime
Jewish ghetto, Bishop Stanislaw Gadecki, chairman of the Polish
church's Commission for Dialogue with Judaism, said his church
condemned "all forms of intolerance, racism and anti-Semitism".
He referred specifically to the pogrom at Jedwabne where up to
1600 Jewish men, women and children were hacked to death or burned
alive on 10 July 1941 during an eight-hour rampage three
weeks after the German occupation of eastern Poland. [ENI-01-0204] |