US Edition'Disease of Antisemitism': Polish Ultranationalists Place Signs Blaming Jews for Pogrom at Memorial Site
JEDWABNE, POLAND, JUL 10 – Plaques installed near the Jedwabne memorial falsely blame Nazis and Jewish Communists for the massacre, contradicting evidence that at least 340 Jews were killed by local residents in 1941.
- On Monday, unidentified individuals installed falsehood-laden plaques near the Jedwabne massacre memorial, blaming Nazis and Jewish Communists for the 1941 atrocity.
- Polish right-wing figures dispute IPN findings and blame Germans, fueled by 2018 laws criminalizing blame on Poles for Nazi crimes.
- The plaques falsely claim that Germans and Jewish Communists committed the Jedwabne massacre, with inscriptions in Polish and English disputing Polish responsibility, according to Gazeta Wyborcza.
- Yad Vashem, Poland’s Chief Rabbi, and local activists condemn the plaques, demanding removal and highlighting the breach of historical integrity.
- More broadly, Poland’s 2018 laws criminalizing blame of Poles have strained ties with Israel, prompting Yad Vashem to call for protection of the site amid ongoing Holocaust memory disputes.
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Jerusalem Post
The Canadian Jewish NewsIn 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.
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‘Desecration of Historical Truth’: Yad Vashem Decries Revisionism at Massacre Site in Poland
A memorial at the site of the 1941 massacre of Jews in Jedwabne, Poland. Photo: Aw58 via Wikimedia Commons. Jerusalem’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial is urging Polish authorities to remove newly installed plaques near a monument to the 1941 Jedwabne massacre, denouncing them as a “desecration of historical truth” that obscures the role of Polish villagers in the murder of hundreds of Jews. Thursday marks the 84th anniversary of the Jedwabne mass…
The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Israel has been horrified by new memorial plaques near a monument to the Jewish victims of a massacre in Poland during World War II.
Located near the Jedwabne Memorial, which commemorates the massacre of Jews by their neighbours in north-eastern Poland in 1941, this facility calls into question the official conclusions on the responsibility of the inhabitants.
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