From WRGB:

The ceremony was attended by the diversity of the Polish community, with members from the Polish National Catholic, Roman Catholic, and Ukrainian Catholic communities. Prayers were offered by each, including a beautiful panikhida by the Rev. Mikhail Myshchuk. Reflections were offered by the leaders of Polonian organizations as well as area political leaders. Greetings and marks of condolence were read from the Capital Region’s Jewish community.

From the Schenectady Gazette: Capital Region Poles unite to honor plane crash victims

More than 200 members of the Polish community in the Capital Region attended a memorial service Friday night honoring the president of Poland and 95 other members of that country’s political, military and religious elite killed when their jet crashed April 10 in Russia….

From YNN: Polish community honors crash victims

The local Polish-American community came together to remember and honor the Polish leaders who died in last week’s plane crash.

The memorial service was hosted by Albany’s Polish Community Center. There, people heard prayer readings and a speech that Polish President Lech Kaczynski was supposed to give at a ceremony before he was killed in the crash.

The Polish President and First Lady were among 97 of the country’s dignitaries killed in that crash one week ago. They were flying to Russia for a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn Forest massacre where more than 20,000 Polish prisoners of war were killed by soviet agents.

Those who attended the memorial service say they are not surprised by the large turnout.

“It shows the deep emotion and feelings people have. It’s also indicative of the large numbers that we have in the Capital District area of people from Poland in the recent past and from Polish heritage background,” said Fr. Carl Urban.

Mourners also tell us that the most positive thing to come out of the plane crash is that many people are now aware of the Katyn massacre.