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this day in the yesteryear: The Jedwabne Pogrom (1941)


The Jedwabne Pogrom (1941)

Just a month after Nazi forces overran Poland and began distributing anti-Semitic propaganda there, the non-Jewish residents of the Polish town of Jedwabne took it upon themselves to round up and massacre Jews living in the area, burning hundreds alive. The fact that the Jedwabne Pogrom was not a German death squad operation but was actually “committed directly by Poles” was only recently established by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance. What details of the atrocity are still debated? More… Discuss