The Shoah (1939–1945)
Massacre of Jedwabne
10 juill. 1941·Jedwabne
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The Jews of the town were gathered on the square then locked in a barn and burned alive by their Polish neighbors.
On the tenth day of July, the Jews of Jedwabne are gathered in the square, then locked in a barn and burned alive by their Polish neighbors.
Jedwabne became, through the book by Jan Gross published at the turn of the century, the name of a national debate. The official inquiry that followed confirmed the responsibility of inhabitants of the town, while revising downward the estimated number of victims. The President of the Polish Republic asked forgiveness on behalf of those who could no longer do so; the controversy, however, has not been extinguished.
- Period :
- The Shoah (1939–1945)
- Type :
- Shoah
- Region :
- Central and Eastern Europe
- Country :
- Pologne
Instruments de l'Institut polonais de la mémoire nationale ; travaux de Jan Gross.