The Anti-Defamation League applauded Polish religious and civic leaders for condemning the “outrageous and anti-Semitic” actions of a Catholic priest who recently displayed a model of a barn in which some 1,600 Jews were burned alive during the Holocaust. Father Henryk Jankowski, who is known for his anti- Semitism, displayed the model along with the inscription: “The Jews killed Jesus and they are in the process of crucifying Poland.”
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