Jedwabne memorial to be held today on 60th anniversary of massacre

A sixtieth anniversary memorial will be held today at Jedwabne, in honor of the Jews massacred there during World War Two. President Aleksander Kwasniewski will mark the occasion by issuing a formal apology for the crime. Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek will take part in commemorations in Warsaw. The government will be represented at Jedwabne by Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, but the Polish Episcopate will not send an official representative. Several thousand people are expected to take part in the memorial, including several dozen from overseas whose relatives died at Jedwabne 60 years ago. The memorial is scheduled to start at 11 am in the market square, from where people will march in silent procession to the site of the massacre. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1) P.J.