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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
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(contracted; show full)n Jedwabne and elsewhere.{{sfn|Cienciala|2003|pp=56–57, 59}} Following Germany's [[Operation Barbarossa|invasion of the Soviet Union]] on 22 June 1941, German forces again overran Jedwabne and other parts of Poland that had been occupied by the Soviets.{{sfn|Matthäus|2004|p=244}} [[Christopher Browning]] writes: "Criminal orders from above and violent impulses from below created a climate of unmitigated violence.{{sfn|Browning|2004|p=259}}

===Pogroms===
{{further|Wąsosz pogrom|Radziłów pogrom}}

{{seealso|Ghetto benches|History of the Jews in 20th-century Poland}}⏎
Between 1935 and 1937, before World War II—as [[antisemitism]] increased in Germany and across [[eastern Europe]]—there were anti-Jewish [[pogrom]]s in about 100 towns in Poland.<ref>{{harvnb|Pohl|2019|pp=20, 32}}; {{harvnb|Gilbert|2004|pp=20–22}}.</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Two Jews killed in Poland rioting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/03/10/archives/two-jews-killed-in-poland-rioting-scores-hurt-in-radom-town.html |work=The New York Times |date=10 March 1936 |page=12}}{{pb}}
{{cite news |title=Jews beaten in Poland |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1936/10/21/archives/jews-beaten-in-poland-twenty-hurt-in-riots-as-schools-in-warsaw-are.html |work=The New York Times |date=21 October 1936 |page=5}}{{pb}}
{{cite news |title=Anti-Semitic rioting spreads in Poland |work=The New York Times |date=16 May 1937 |page=30 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/16/archives/antisemitic-rioting-spreads-in-poland-building-is-bombed-in.html}}{{pb}}⏎
{{cite news |title=Anti-Jewish rioting resumed in Poland|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/11/10/archives/antijewish-rioting-resumed-in-poland-several-hurt-when-nationalists.html |work=The New York Times |date=10 November 1937 |page=17}}{{pb}}
{{cite news |title=Polish Jews ask help|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/03/09/archives/polish-jews-ask-help-deputies-appeal-to-minister-as-rioting-is.html |work=The New York Times |date=9 March 1938 |page=17}}{{pb}}
{{cite news |title=Anti-Semitic rioting spreads in Poland |work=The New York Times |date=16 May 1937 |page=30 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/16/archives/antisemitic-rioting-spreads-in-poland-building-is-bombed-in.html}}</ref> [[Martin Gilbert]] writes that "Jews were attacked in the streets, and Jewish houses and shops were broken up and looted."{{sfn|Gilbert|2004|p=20}} Cardinal [[August Hlond]], [[Primate of Poland]], spoke out against the violence in a pastoral letter on 29 February 1936, in which he also stated: "It is true that the Jews are committing frauds, practicing usury, and dealing in white slavery", and that their effect on Catholic youth was "generally evil". Nevertheless,(contracted; show full)[[Category:1941 in Judaism]]
[[Category:1941 in Poland]]
[[Category:Controversies in Poland]]
[[Category:Holocaust massacres and pogroms in Poland]]
[[Category:July 1941 events]]
[[Category:Mass murder in 1941]]
[[Category:Poland in World War II]]
[[Category:World War II crimes in Poland]]-->