Poland considering exhumations at WWII massacre site

6 March 2019, 6:27 pm

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The Polish government says it is considering carrying out exhumations at a World War II-era site where Jews were burned alive in a barn by their Polish neighbors, something which would violate Jewish religious law.

The matter concerns the 1941 pogrom in the Polish town of Jedwabne, where Poles burned alive more than 300 Jews during the German wartime occupation of the country.

An exhumation began in 2001 but was stopped at the time by then-justice minister Lech Kaczynski out of respect for Jewish sensitivities.

Moving forward with the exhumations would threaten new controversy following recent spats with Israel related to Holocaust memory.

— AP