Probe of Massacre Ends Without New Charges
From Times Wire Reports
POLAND
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A 20-month investigation has concluded that Poles, not their Nazi occupiers, carried out the 1941 massacre of as many as 1,600 Jews in the village of Jedwabne, but prosecutors said there was no evidence to bring new charges.
Prosecutor Radoslaw Ignatiew said a band of 40 men, armed with sticks, rounded up local Jews, killing some and driving others into a barn and burning it. However, he said, evidence had turned up no perpetrators other than the 12 convicted in 1949 for aiding Germans.
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