WARSAW (Reuters) - The World Jewish Congress has demanded an apology from the Polish education minister over her refusal to recognise the complicity of Poles in a 1941 massacre of several hundred Jews at Jedwabne in the country's northeast.
Speaking to private broadcaster TVN24, Education Minister Anna Zalewska refused to openly admit Poles' complicity in the pogrom, saying it was a "historical fact, which has been misunderstood many times, with many very biased opinions".
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