Jedwabne Holocoust Memorial and housing
Taken on Fuji Slide film with Contax camera with Carl Zeiss lens. The Jedwabne pogrom (or Jedwabne massacre) was a massacre of Jewish people living in and near the town of Jedwabne in Poland that occurred during World War II, in July 1941. Although long assumed to have been a Nazi Einsatzgruppen operation, it is now known that the massacre was mostly executed by non-Jewish Poles and "Volksdeutsche" in the area. Whether and how far the occupying German forces were involved remains the subject of dispute among historians. Following their attack on the Soviet Union in June 1941, German forces quickly overran those areas of Poland that the Soviet Union had annexed as part of the 1939 Nazi-Soviet pact. The Nazis distributed propaganda in the area claiming that Jews had assisted in crimes committed by the Soviet Union in Poland and the SS organized special Einsatzgruppen ("task forces") to murder Jews in these areas. The small town of Wizna, for example, near Jedwabne in the northeast of Poland, saw several dozen Jewish men shot by the invading Germans. A month later, on the morning of July 10, 1941, a number of non-Jewish inhabitants of Jedwabne rounded up their Jewish neighbors and any others they could find, including Jews visiting from nearby towns and villages such as Wizna and Kolno. They were taken to the square in the centre of Jedwabne, where they were attacked and beaten. A group of about forty to fifty Jews, including the local rabbi, were then forced to destroy a monument of Lenin placed in the square during the Soviet occupation. This group was then murdered and buried in a mass grave along with fragments of the monument. This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. ( link: ) It uses material from the Wikipedia article titled "Jedwabne pogrom" (link: ).
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Location: Polska, Poland Jedwabne town
Photo credit: © Andrzej Gorzkowski / Alamy / Afripics
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