Anti-Russian sentiment is fueling a nationalist revival, and some historians, politicians and activists are engaged in a campaign to discredit the accounts of Poles who massacred Jews.
No residents of Jedwabne nor the town's mayor were present for the 75th anniversary of the torching of a barn full of Jews, which remains the subject of a hot debate on Poland's Holocaust-era record.
The move could significantly augment the budget for the largely unpreserved memorial for the murder site of 870,000 people run by a regional government.