Jedwabne exhumation declared closed after 150 to 250 bodies discovered

The exhumation of the remains of Jews murdered at Jedwabne during World War Two was declared closed yesterday. According to the findings of the dig, the number of victims may have been significantly lower than that claimed by Jan Tomasz Gross in his book, 1600. The experts working at the site insist that it is impossible to give an exact estimate, since because of protests from Jewish religious leaders, only a partial exhumation could be carried out. Even so, they say that between 150 and 250 bodies were found in two mass graves. Two other sites indicated by eye-witnesses of the crime failed to yield any bodies. Minister of Justice, Lech Kaczynski, who visited Jedwabne yesterday, announced that evidence had been uncovered of Nazi participation in the massacre. Almost a hundred fragments of bullets used at the time by the Germans were discovered at the site. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1 ) A.D.