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Banners reading 'I do not apologise for Jedwabne, let the perpetrators apologise' and 'Finish the exhumation, put an end to the slanders against Poles, the Jedwabne lie', with cut-out figures depicting Poland's Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and former Polish presidents are seen next to a crucifix set up at a gathering of far-right supporters who question the guilt of Polish citizens for the massacre in Jedwabne, on the sidelines of an official ceremony at the Jedwabne massacre monument honouring the memory of the town's Jewish residents murdered on July 10, 1941 by their Polish neighbours, in Jedwabne, north-eastern Poland, on July 10, 2026. (Photo by Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 10, 2026, 8:16 pm
Polish nationalists protest commemoration of Nazi-era Polish massacre of Jews
A thousand protesters, denying locals’ guilt, object to ceremony marking anniversary of 1941 Jedwabne massacre, when Polish farmers locked 300 Jews in a barn and set it on fire
By Katarzyna SKIBA
A container installed near the site of the Jedwabne pogrom proclaims in Polish, "The earth doesn't lie." The container, installed in April 2026, promotes the narrative that Nazis, not Poles, killed the Jews of Jedwabne in 1941. (Screenshot via JTA)
April 18, 2026, 4:58 am
Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941
Family of Jewish man who survived the Jedwabne massacre is trying to get the new installation removed: ‘We call it a denial museum, because that’s what it is’
By Shira Li Bartov
A man puts a candle by new plaques recently placed near a Polish monument to Jews murdered by their Polish neighbors in the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, July 10, 2025. (Wojtek RADWANSKI / AFP)
July 14, 2025, 3:58 pm
In Polish town where locals burned Jews alive, ‘alternate memorial’ denies complicity
Far-right activist erected history-falsifying plaques at site of 1941 Jedwabne massacre ahead of last week’s commemoration, smearing Jewish victims and exonerating Polish perpetrators
By Shira Li Bartov
Far-right Polish lawmaker Grzegorz Braun speaks to parliament in Warsaw, Poland, on December 11, 2023. (AP Photo/ Czarek Sokolowski)
July 12, 2025, 1:54 pm
Polish prosecutors probe far-right lawmaker who called Auschwitz gas chambers ‘fake’
Death camp museum head says will file separate complaint against Grzegorz Braun, a former presidential candidate, who also reiterated blood libel, disrupted pogrom commemoration
By Agencies and ToI Staff
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, 2025, 7:18 pm
Yad Vashem slams new plaques blaming German unit for Polish massacre of Jews in 1941
Crowd-funded signs at Jedwabne site say — contrary to Poland’s own investigation — that ‘German pacification unit,’ not local Poles, burned hundreds of Jews alive in a locked barn
By AFP
Former Polish President Alekdander Kwasniewski touches a memorial for slain Jews at a ceremony marking 70 years since Polish 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
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