85th Anniversary of Jewish Pogrom Marked in Poland, Far-Right Extremists Disrupt Commemoration
Serbian News Media pre 22 dana
Members of the Jewish community in Poland and officials from the country marked today the 85th anniversary of the pogrom of Jews in the village of Jedwabne, while radical Polish nationalists attempted to disrupt the commemoration and joint prayers.
The commemoration and prayers were initiated by Poland’s Chief Rabbi Michael Schudrich, exactly 85 years after Poles, with the blessing of the German occupying authorities, burned alive around 300 of their Jewish neighbors in a barn and killed another 40 by other means. „We are here to pray and to mourn. The most important thing is that we are doing this together. I hear some opposition to our commemoration and I thought: what does it mean to be against prayer? Are
