Vandals deface Polish monument to massacre of Jews - The Boston Globe
Vandals desecrated a monument marking the spot in Poland where hundreds of Jews were burned alive during World War II, scrawling “they were flammable’’ and a swastika on the
The government, Poland’s Jewish community, and Holocaust survivors yesterday strongly condemned the attack on the site, which marks one of the most notorious cases in which local people collaborated with Nazis in killing Jews during the German wartime occupation.The monument in the town of Jedwabne honors the victims of July 10, 1941, when about 40 Poles hunted down the town’s Jews, shut them up in a barn, and set it on fire, killing 300 to 400 people.