Discoveries shed more light on the fate of Jedwabne massacre victims

Specialists conducting exhumation work at Jedwabne, where a massacre of Jews took place in July 1941, have discovered another mass grave on the site of a barn in which the victims were burnt alive. They have also unearthed the remnants of a statue of Lenin. There had been rumors that the Jews were forced to carry such a statue through the city's streets immediately prior to their execution. A rusted knife has also been found, suggesting that one of the victims was a kosher butcher. The experts point out that although the exhumation is shedding some light on the circumstances surrounding the massacre, it will not allow them to decide the exact number of victims. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) J.K.