Late Kaczynski’s mother told of his death in plane crash

Late Polish President Lech Kaczynski’s mother, 83, who had been hospitalized for more than two months, was for a long time unaware that her son had died in an airplane crash in April.

"Mama still does not know that Lech is dead," late president’s twin-brother Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a candidate to succeed his brother in a June 20 presidential election, told media some days before. He added that was intending to tell her the truth in the near future.

On Tuesday Jaroslaw Kaczynski broke the news to her, a blow that came as a huge shock to the 83-year-old woman, according to Elzbieta Jakubiak, a close aide to Jaroslaw. "This was the most difficult moment in Jaroslaw Kaczynski's life," Jakubiak said in an interview late Tuesday on the all-news station TVN24.

The Polish delegation, involving Lech Kaczynski, his wife and numerous top officials, died in a plane crash on their way to Russia, where they were going to participate in the commemoration events timed to the 70th anniversary of the massacre against nearly 20,000 Polish officers, committed in the village of Katyn during WW2.