investigation of a World War II massacre of Jews in northeast Poland without identifying new suspects, BosNewsLife learned Thursday July 10.
The pontiff urged "reconciliation" between his native Poland and Ukraine, 60 years after the World War II massacre of as many as 100,000 Poles by Ukrainian nationalists.
In a letter to Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp and Ukrainian Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, the pontiff said Ukraine and Poland are no longer under Soviet domination and can now work together.
The news emerged as The National Remembrance Institute, set up to investigate another massacre, carried out by Poles, closed its inquiry saying the only people found responsible are those prosecuted by communist authorities after the war.
Poland’s communist government blamed Nazi German forces for a 1941 massacre of more than 1,000 Jews in the town of Jedwabne, but sentenced at least 12 Polish villagers on collaboration charges, news reports said.
An institute official said families of the victims living in Poland and Israel can request the case be re-opened, the Voice of America network reported. The Jedwabne probe prompted Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski to recently apologize for the heinous crime.
