Statement on Distortionist Plaques erected in Jedwabne

The USC Shoah Foundation is troubled by news that hardline nationalists have erected plaques in Jedwabne that distort the history of the July 10, 1941, pogrom, which claimed the lives of hundreds of that town’s Jews. The Jedwabne massacre is a well-researched historical fact, supported by archival documents and eyewitness testimonies, yet it remains an inconvenient reality for those who seek to distort the truth of the Holocaust for all manner of purposes.

This latest attempt is perhaps the most egregious perversion of that history, as it suggests that Jews collaborated with both Soviet and Nazi authorities against non-Jewish Poles. Such ahistorical, amoral claims are not only historically indefensible, but they are also a moral slander against the lives of those murdered during the Shoah and an affront to their memory.

https://www.jns.org/revisionist-plaque-sparks-outrage-on-site-where-poles-butchered-jews/