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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 527

Jedwabne

File - Former Polish President Alekdander Kwasniewski touches the statue after praying for the dead at a ceremony marking 70 years since Poland's villagers murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors during World War II in Jedwabne, Poland, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
September 12, 2022, 1:51 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 12: Poland seeks WWII reparations – for Jews killed by Poles
Diaspora reporter Judah Ari Gross delves into a shocking story out of Poland; health reporter Nathan Jeffay brings us the latest in COVID research and a cancer detection blood test
By ToI Staff
A Polish nationalist holds a sign reading "We demand the truth about Jedwabne," at the site of a Holocaust pogrom in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2021. (Krzysztof Bielawski)
July 15, 2021, 9:36 pm
Polish nationalists disrupt commemoration for Jewish pogrom victims
Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich says protests at memorial for Jedwabne pogrom point to a ‘very serious issue’ involving Polish government’s stance on Holocaust memory
By Katarzyna Markusz
An inscription reading 'They were Flammable' and a Nazi swastika are seen in Jedwabne, Poland, September 1, 2011, on the monument dedicated to Jews from the town of Jedwabne burned to death by their Polish neighbors in 1941. (AP/Michal Kosc/File)
March 19, 2019, 6:43 pm
Poland calls off exhumation of bodies from 1941 Jedwabne pogrom
Prosecutor says investigation into attack on town’s Jews by their neighbors will not be reopened, as digging up bodies would likely not provide new evidence
By Katarzyna Markusz
Memorial in Jedwabne, Poland dedicated to Jews who were murdered here on July 10, 1941. (Fczarnowski, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
March 6, 2019, 7:56 pm
Poland considering exhumations at World War II massacre site
In what would be a violation of Jewish religious laws, authorities want to dig up bodies at Jedwabne, where Poles burned alive more than 300 Jews during German occupation
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this photo taken March 13, 2018, Jan Gross, a Holocaust scholar who has been a catalyst for historical debates about Polish behavior during the Holocaust, speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
November 11, 2018, 12:18 am
Poland demotes prosecutor who tried to halt probe of Holocaust scholar
Action against Michal Binkiewicz comes after he twice declined to pursue case against Jewish professor who wrote Poles killed more Jews than Germans in WWII
By JTA
Jack Schwartz
July 13, 2018, 10:27 am
Jack Schwartz
Poland’s narrative amounts to Holocaust denial
It was the Poles who held the Jews on the scaffold, while the Nazis tightened the noose
Memorial in Jedwabne, Poland dedicated to Jews who were murdered here on July 10, 1941. (Fczarnowski, CC-BY-SA, via wikipedia)
August 16, 2017, 6:56 pm
Polish historian seeks exhumation of Jews murdered by neighbors in WWII
Krzysztof Krasowski wants to determine if Germans behind Jedwabne massacre, which Princeton professor said was perpetrated by Poles
By JTA
Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
July 10, 2017, 6:58 pm
Dozens attend ceremony commemorating Jedwabne pogrom
Polish clergyman says 1941 tragedy in which 300 Jews were burned alive could have been avoided if Catholic Church had reformed stance on non-Christians earlier
By JTA
Men sit in village square in Iwaniska, Poland in 'Scandal in Ivansk' (Blumenfeld Pictures)
May 9, 2017, 1:54 am
New documentary digs up controversy as Polish Jewish cemetery restored
In ‘Scandal in Ivansk,’ opening May 9, a Canadian-Israeli filmmaker charts the maelstrom surrounding Poles’ relationship to the word ‘collaborators’ in a new nationalist era
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Robert Rozett
April 23, 2017, 7:02 pm
Robert Rozett
‘It wasn’t us’: The battle for memory and history
Nations that helped carry out the Holocaust are revising history to recast themselves as victims and rescuers
This undated World War II photo released by the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial shows a group of German gendarmes. (Yad Vashem via AP)
March 16, 2017, 1:41 am
Polish historian’s book on killing of Jews exposes raw nerve
Barbara Engelking’s ‘Such a Beautiful Sunny Day’ details dozens of cases of everyday Poles in World War II raping Jewish women and bludgeoning Jews to death
By Aron Heller
Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
August 18, 2016, 10:30 am
Is new Polish law an attempt to whitewash its citizens’ roles in the Holocaust?
Some experts worry that legislation which criminalizes talk of ‘Polish death camps’ places emphasis on one aspect of World War II history while suppressing country’s dark past
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Michael Schudrich, Poland’s chief rabbi, reciting a prayer for the victims of the Jedwabne massacre at the town’s Jewish cemetery, July 10, 2016. Second from left is Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
July 22, 2016, 10:27 am
Polish officials rapped for perceived revisionism of Holocaust history
Censure comes following claims that Nazis, not Poles, were perpetrators of 1941 mass murder of Jews in Jedwabne
By JTA
Michael Schudrich, Poland’s chief rabbi, reciting a prayer for the victims of the Jedwabne massacre at the town’s Jewish cemetery, July 10, 2016. Second from left is Jonathan Greenblatt, the Anti-Defamation League’s national director. (Cnaan Liphshiz)
July 20, 2016, 2:58 pm
Polish mayor calls for exhumation of Jewish mass grave
Reexamination of Jedwabne massacre comes after education minister questioned whether locals carried out the 1941 pogrom
By JTA
Jews from Poland and abroad gather for commemorations marking the 75th anniversary of a massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, on July 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Michal Kosc)
July 14, 2016, 7:08 pm
Polish education minister says massacres of Jews an ‘opinion’
Anna Zalewska expresses doubt over Jedwabne killings, raising questions about ruling party’s commitment to opposing anti-Semitism
By Vanessa Gera
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