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{{short description|1941 massacre of Jews in Poland}}

{{Infobox civilian attack
| title         = Jedwabne pogrom
| partof        = [[World War II]] and [[the Holocaust]]
| image         = A-438 Mogiła-pomnik, na cmentarzu żydowskim, 1941 Jedwabne.jpg
| image_size    = 
(contracted; show full) 62&nbsp;×&nbsp;23 feet)."{{sfn|Stola|2003|p=140}} The exhumation lasted just five days because of religious objections from [[Orthodox Jew]]s; in ''Digging for the Disappeared'' (2015), Adam Rosenblatt writes that, because of this, what happened in Jedwabne "is likely to remain forever murky".{{sfn|Rosenblatt|2015|p=126}} According to William Haglund, a forensic expert for [[Physicians for Human Rights]], who attended the exhumation as an international observer, 
ithe process should have lasted several months.{{sfn|Polonsky|Michlic|2003|p=456}} In his view, the number of bodies could not be estimated in the short space of time.{{sfn|Gross|2003|p=359}}  {{efn|[[Physicians for Human Rights]] asked Rabbi Joseph Polak of Boston University for a theological opinion; he argued that reburying someone after an inappropriate burial is "not only appropriate but ''obligatory''".{{sfn|Polak|2001|p=24}}}}

The Polish government had to compromise and agree that only the top layer and small fragments would be examined; large pieces of bone would not be moved.{{sfn|Rosenblatt|2015|p=126}} The exhumation reportedly ended, according to Haglund writes, "with some of the non-Jewish Polish investigators weeping in frustration as they watched one of the rabbis lowering the charred teeth and bone fragments&nbsp;... back into the graves".{{sfn|Rosenblatt|2015|p=127}} 

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[[Category:Mass murder in 1941]]
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