A Polish farmer is refusing to sell land where his government wants to build a memorial acknowledging that Polish villagers murdered some 1,600 of their Jewish neighbors in July 1941 by herding them into a barn and setting it on fire. A local official in the town of Jedwabne said the farmer got a better offer from the publisher of anti-Semitic books. Government officials are threatening to seize the land.
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