A 1941 pogrom in the Polish town of Jedwabne was commemorated at the site of the atrocity.
Representatives of the Jewish community and local residents came out for the July 10 ceremony to remember the hundreds of Jews who were killed on July 10, 1941, by dozens of their Jedwabne neighbors.
Yitzhak Levin, an Israeli with roots from Jedwabne, said the Mourner’s Kaddish, and Polish Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich read Psalm 23 and the El Malei Rachamim prayer.
Israel’s ambassador to Poland, Anna Azari, also spoke.
“I’m lucky to meet in Poland very good people, the righteous and those who do a lot for Jewish history and culture,” Azari said. “We need to look in the mirror of history and remember what is good and what is bad.
In the Jedwabne pogrom, most of the victims were burned alive in a barn. The massacre was one of several that summer committed by ordinary Poles against Jews. — jta