Bones of Polish Pogrom’s Victims Reburied in Jedwabne

The remains of victims from the Jedwabne pogrom were reburied at a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the massacre in the Polish town.

Dozens of people gathered Wednesday at the site in Jedwabne where Poles murdered hundreds of their Jewish neighbors on July 10, 1941.

Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich and Piotr Kadlcik, the president of the Union of Jewish Communities in Poland, along with Isaac Lewin, who as a child survived the massacre, buried the remains provided by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance and the Museum of World War II.

In 2001, during the exhumation of the mass grave, bones of some of the victims were found, as were some of their belongings.

“This is doubly important,” Kadlcik said. “They are coming back here, but it is also a symbol of some changes that are taking place. A few years ago, after cleaning the items, these remains would have been probably thrown away. Now there is no doubt that they should be buried in this place.”

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