Polish investigators resumed the exhumation of a mass grave of 1,600 Jews massacred in 1941 by their Polish neighbors. The exhumation in the town of Jedwabne began last week as part of a government probe into the massacre, but was halted May 31 after a rabbi from Israel, who is an expert on exhumations, had to leave. A second rabbi, Morris Herschaft of London, came to Jedwabne to supervise the exhumation.
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