PRAGUE (JTA) — Poland’s Institute of National Remembrance is reopening an investigation into the 1941 rape and murder of 20 Jewish women in the Polish village of Bzury.

At least 340 Jewish men, women and children were murdered in the Jedwabne pogrom in Poland on July 10, 1941. Jedwabne was under Soviet rule between 1939-1941 when the Germans retook control of the ...

Polish Jews split over plan to exhume 1941 massacre victims A prosecutor’s request to glean evidence on the Wasosz killing sparks communal dispute on Jewish law and historical redemption ...

On the morning of July 10, 1941, Polish townspeople drove the Jews from their homes to the market square, where they forced them to pull the weeds from between the cobblestones. It was a scorching ...