Growing evidence of widespread anti-semitic criminal acts in 1941

The crimes committed against the Jews in Jedwabne and Radzillow were not isolated. Historians from the National Remembrance Institute (IPN) established that in the summer of 1941, during the first weeks of the German occupation of Poland, in at least 300 places of Bialostocczyzna, Poles committed criminal acts against their Jewish neighbors. The criminal acts were recorded and described in two independent sources. One group of documents reveals accounts of Jewish Holocaust survivors. In 32 testimonies published in "Wokol Jedwabnego" there is mention of tragic events that took place in 22 locations, with over a hundred names of victims and murderers listed. The second source is a collection of legal documents from 62 investigations and trials against Polish citizens accused of anti-semitic criminal acts. (Rzeczpospolita, Nov. 2-3, p. A1) A.C.