jedwabne

Polish historian seeks to exhume bodies of Jews murdered by neighbors in 1941

The request, a plea by a historian from Bialystok, comes amid growing revisionism and denial of culpability by Poles for the Jedwabne massacre.

Jedwabne mayor calls for exhumation of Jewish mass grave

Michael Chajewski added his voice to a growing chorus of officials seeking to exhume the bodies to see if Germans, not Poles, killed the victims.

Polish education minister mum on who killed Jedwabne Jews

Anna Zalewska’s noncommittal answer comes amid a passionate debate on the 1941 pogrom perpetrated by non-Jewish residents of a country largely perceived as a victim of Nazi Germany.

Global

Locals absent at ceremony marking Polish atrocity

Global

Polish adman creates buzz with his pro-Jewish graffiti

Global

Polish president opens museum for Righteous among Nations

Global

Polish Jews split over plan to exhume massacre victims

United States

World War II massacre at Jedwabne commemorated

Global

Probe into vandalism of Jedwabne memorial ends without finding perpetrators

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