Jersey City's Polish statue to stay in place: report
PR dla Zagranicy
Alicja Baczyńska
22.11.2018 08:30
The Jersey City Council has given a preliminary green light to an ordinance allowing the city's Katyn monument to stay at its original site, according to a report.
The Katyn Massacre monument in Jersey CityPhoto: Colin Knowles [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
The nine-member council unanimously voted on Tuesday for the memorial to remain at Exchange Place for good after the second reading of the ordinance, Poland’s PAP news agency reported.
A final vote on the issue is due to be taken on December 19.
A plan to move the monument by 60 metres sparked a transatlantic spat after Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop announced the monument would be removed while its home at Exchange Place would be converted into a park.
Some of the Polish community opposed the plan and petitioned to have the monument left in its current location.
Jersey City's mayor later said the monument would be moved to a "respected" place.
The monument at the centre of the row features a 10-metre-tall bronze figure of a soldier—who has been gagged and bound and impaled by a bayonetted rifle—mounted on top of a granite base containing soil from the Katyn Forest in western Russia where thousands of Poles were murdered by Soviet secret police in 1940 during World War II.
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Source: PAP
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