Jedwabne pogrom
1941 CE.
Shown on the map at 53.289°, 22.310°.
The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941, during World War II and the early stages of the Holocaust. Estimates of the number of victims vary from 300 to 1,600, including women, children, and elderly, many of whom were locked in a barn and burned alive. At least 40 ethnic Poles carried out the killing; their ringleaders decided on it beforehand with Germany's Gestapo, SS security police, or SS intelligence, and they cooperated with German military police. According to historian Jan T. Gross, "the undisputed bosses of life and death in Jedwabne were the Germans," who were "the only ones who could decide the fate of the Jews." The first information about the Jedwabne pogrom was published in 1966 by Szymon Datner in an article published in the "JHI Bulletin" of the Jewish Historical Institute. In 1967, the Regional Commission for Research of Nazi Crimes in Białystok began another investigation in the case. Knowledge of the massacre did not become widespread until 1999–2003.
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