THE JEDWABNE POGROM

 It was a massacre of the Jewish inhabitant of Jedwabne and the neighbourhoods, 

by a group of nearly 40 inhabitants of this city (of the German inspiration). That accident 

has placed at the10th of July 1941 at the thime of the Nazi occupation of Poland. As a 

result of that crime, nearly 340 people died. Majority of the victims was burned alive 

inside a horse-barn.

 At the 10th of July, the inhabitants of neighbourhood places were coming to the city. 

They was aware of the planned massacre of the Jews, which have be placed that day. 

Some Jedwabian Jews were warned about it last evening. In the morning polish inhabitants 

were driving the Jews away on square. There they were beating them and ordering them to 

clean the square. Some of imprisoned Jews died.

There was some German soldiers at the city and they were helping in driving Jews away 

at the square, but their active action finished on this. The investigation of the IPN did'nt let to 

affix, if they was there later.

A group of enduring Jewish men was forced to crush the statue of  Lenin, which was standing 

there since taking that place by Soviets. In the afternoon a group of  Poles forced them to carry 

that statue beside the horse-barn near the city. Then Poles murdered the men and buried them 

with the statue in the ground.

In the afternoon a group of next Jews(nearly 300 people - men, women and children) was leaded

 out the square too. Poles brought them into a wooden horse-barn, closed, drenched a petroleum

 and set it on fire. Some Nazi supposedly documented that event with photographs, but it never 

was found.