Lev Krishtapovich, Doctor of Philosophy: Polish shlyakhetsky Holocaust

This tragedy occurred in the territory Soviet Belarus on July 10, 1941. Then in Edvabne's small town that is translated into Russian as Silk, there was a massacre of Jews as a result of which the town lost the most part of the inhabitants. According to official figures, in Edvabna then 1600 Jews were brutally killed that at that time made 70% of his inhabitants. In memory of this tragic event in 1963 in Edvabna the stone with the cut inscription that Jews were destroyed by Hitlerites was put. However in 2000 the historian Gross Tomash...