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In a Polish town where locals burned Jews alive in 1941, new plaques deny complicity with Nazis

JL;DR SUMMARY In the Polish town of Jedwabne, where locals infamously committed a massacre of Jews in 1941, controversy has arisen due to new plaques denying Polish involvement and suggesting Nazi responsibility instead. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustJewish CommunityYad VashemHolocaust DenialPolandGrzegorz BraunHistorical RevisionismJedwabne MassacrePolish Politics

Places mentioned

Jedwabne, Mazovia, Poland
"Thursday marked 84 years since the crimes in Jedwabne, a town of less than 2,000 people northeast of Warsaw."
Warsaw, Mazovia, Poland
"Thursday marked 84 years since the crimes in Jedwabne, a town of less than 2,000 people northeast of Warsaw."
Israel
"Yad Vashem, Israels Holocaust memorial authority, said on Thursday that it was profoundly shocked and deeply concerned by the desecration of historical truth and memory at the Jedwabne memorial site in Poland."

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