In 1941, local residents killed hundreds of their Jewish neighbors, most of them in a barn where they were burned alive. The story gained recognition through “Neighbors,” a 2000 book by ...

“In November 1941, Polish police were shooting Jews on a regular basis, much earlier than in Nazi-occupied countries in Western Europe.” ...

Jedwabne is a town in northeastern Poland where as many as 1,600 Jews were massacred in July 1941. Sunday s ceremony was prompted by recent revelations that Poles, not Nazi troops, did the killing ...

More than six decades on, a Polish playwright, Tadeusz Słobodzianek, drew on the Jedwabne massacre for “Our Class,” an account of 10 residents of the town — half of them Jewish, the other half ...

Jedwabne is one of several sites where Polish non-Jews killed a total of 1,500 to 2,500 of their Jewish neighbors during the Holocaust or directly after it, according to Poland’s chief rabbi ...

Prosecutors have not identified and additional perpetrators besides the two Polish men already sentenced for the act shortly after World War II. The murder in Wasosz occurred in July 1941.

JEDWABNE, Poland, July 10 -- At a rain-soaked ceremony, Poland's president begged forgiveness today for a wartime massacre of hundreds of Jewish villagers by their Polish neighbors 60 years ago.

After “Neighbors” came out, Poland’s president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, went to Jedwabne for a ceremony broadcast on Polish ...

In a letter published in The Globe and Mail yesterday, Poland's ambassador to Canada, Pawel Dobrowolski, was responding to reports about the 1941 massacre of hundreds of Jews in the northeastern ...

JEDWABNE, Poland (AP) _ Seeking to atone for a wartime massacre of Jewish villagers blamed for decades on Nazi troops, Poland's president formally admitted at a ceremony Tuesday that Poles carried ...

Wikipedia’s “Supreme Court” to Review Polish-Jewish History During WWII Wikipedia reflects historical disputes—but it can’t resolve them. By Stephen Harrison April 05, 202311:10 AM ...

The Nazis were viewed as a transitory evil. Until they were defeated, Jews in the Polish ghettos had to “play for time,” in order to maintain their community and ensure minimal harm.