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On July 10, 1941, half the residents of Jedwabne, a Polish village 85 miles northeast of Warsaw, murdered the other half. The mob, led by the mayor, were Catholics; their 1,600 victims were Jewish, slaughtered over several nightmarish hours with bats, knives, rifles and other improvised weapons. Those who survived the massacre were then rounded up in a barn donated by a local farmer, which was then set ablaze. A plaque erected at the site blamed Nazis for the massacre, but, in fact, Nazis had only authorized it. Locals walked by the plaque for half a century, knowing the truth,...

<p>TRENTON - A New York man filed a lawsuit in Superior Court seeking to block distribution of a book published by the Princeton University Press and is asking for $9 million in damages.</p> <p>The book, "Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland," was written by historian and New York University professor Jan Tomasz Gross.</p>

http://www.poloniatoday.com/truth.htm Polonia Today February 6, 2002"TRUTH SQUAD" CONFRONTS GROSS AT N.Y. LECTURE New York (PMN)--New York University Professor Jan T. Gross received less than a friendly reception when he came to the City University of New York Graduate Center on February 6, 2002, to promote his controversial book, "Neighbors." His lecture there left no doubt he was intent on putting the blame for a 1941 wartime atrocity in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on the local Polish population and not on the Germans who were in control there. But a "truth squad" of New York Polish Americans was ready...