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19 December 2002

Church bigotry fuelled events leading to 1941 massacre, Polish report says

Warsaw (ENI). A report issued by a national research centre in Poland has accused the country's predominant Roman Catholic Church of having helped fuel anti-Semitic feeling leading to the 1941 massacre of Jews in the north-eastern village of Jedwabne. The report, published by the parliament-appointed National Remembrance Institute, said the massacre had been provoked by occupying Germans but carried out by Poles. [536 words, ENI-02-0462]

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