JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — The future home of a statue commemorating the World War II massacre of Polish troops will be decided by voters.
The Jersey City's council won't have to vote again on moving the Katyn memorial from a downtown plaza to northern New Jersey — more than four months after an initial vote authorized changing its location, a state judge ruled last week.
The memorial sits in a waterfront plaza across from lower Manhattan and shows a Polish soldier with a bayonet on his back. City officials had sought to move the statue to another site along the water a short distance away to make room for a redevelopment project.
Members of the Polish community opposed the plan and gathered enough signatures for a petition to force a reconsideration.
The city council was scheduled to vote last month on whether to repeal their earlier decision to move the memorial. But the measure didn't get the votes it needed to pass because five of the nine City Council members abstained.
Now, voters will choose whether to repeal the council's June vote. A date for the referendum hasn't been set.
