Rabbis joined other religious leaders in saying memorial prayers in Poland as a memorial was dedicated to thousands of Polish officers killed by Soviet secret police during World War II. Until 1990, the Soviet Union claimed that the Nazis had killed the 4,000 people in the Katyn massacre.
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