Probe into vandalism of Jedwabne memorial ends without finding perpetrators
A yearlong investigation into anti-Semitic epithets
painted on the memorial to the Jedwabne pogrom was closed.
The Lomza District Prosecutor ended the investigation on
Monday after being unable to locate the perpetrators.
In August 2011, graffiti painted on the wall next to the
monument in Jedwabne read "I do not apologize for Jedwabne" and
"They burnt easily." Vandals
also defaced the monument itself, erected in the northeastern Polish town in
memory of the hundreds of Jews burned alive in a barn by their Polish neighbors
in 1941. The perpetrators also painted swastikas and SS symbols.
The Prosecutor's Office in Lomza, a city approximately 90
miles from Warsaw, also closed an investigation into the destruction of the
Jewish cemetery in Wysokie Mazowieckie without finding the perpretrators. Last
March, vandals painted anti-Semitic slogans and Nazi symbols on the cemetery
fence, monuments and graves. Vandals wrote that "This is Poland, not
Israel."
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