In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis
In 1941, local residents of Jedwabne killed hundreds of their Jewish neighbors, most of them in a barn where they were burned alive.
A man reads one of the plaques newly placed near a Polish monument to the wartime Jedwabne massacre of Jews by their Polish neighbors, July 10, 2025. The plaques question the official findings and claim that "the crime was committed by a German pacification unit" instead of local Poles. (photo credit: WOJTEK RADWANSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)
