Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941

timesofisrael.com·By Shira Li Bartov
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Humanitarian Reporting

This article documents human rights concerns or humanitarian issues using credible institutional sources. It is not considered a psychological operation.

This article is not considered a psychological operation. It reports on the installation of a new 'information center' in Jedwabne, Poland, a site of a 1941 massacre in which local Poles murdered hundreds of Jews, which now promotes denial of Polish involvement in the atrocity. The article highlights how the display, supported by right-wing activists, contradicts historical evidence and survivor testimony, sparking criticism from descendants of survivors and raising concerns about the distortion of Holocaust memory.

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