Editing Jedwabne pogrom (section)

===President's apology===
[[File:Aleksander Kwasniewski - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2004.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Polish president [[Aleksander Kwaśniewski]] apologized for the massacre in 2001.<ref name=Connolly11July2001/>]]
In July 2001, on the 60th anniversary of the pogrom, Polish president [[Aleksander Kwaśniewski]] attended a ceremony at Jedwabne where he apologized for the massacre: "We can have no doubt that here in Jedwabne Polish citizens were killed at the hands of fellow citizens&nbsp;... I apologise in my own name, and in the name of those Poles whose conscience is shattered by that crime." The ceremony was attended by Catholic and Jewish religious leaders and survivors of the pogrom. Most of the 2,000 locals of Jedwabne, including the town's priest, boycotted the ceremony in protest against the apology.<ref name=Connolly11July2001>{{cite news|first=Kate|last=Connolly |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/jul/11/poland |title=Poland says sorry for slaughter of Jews |newspaper=The Guardian |date=11 July 2001}}</ref>

[[Shevah Weiss]], Israeli Ambassador to Poland, also delivered a speech. "Living among us also are Holocaust survivors whose lives were saved as a result of the brave actions of their Polish neighbors," he said. He praised Poland's investigation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Holley |first1=David |last2=Kasprzycka |first2=Ela |title=A Town Honors Massacred Jews |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jul-11-mn-20896-story.html |work=The Los Angeles Times |date=11 July 2001 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20200416050913/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-jul-11-mn-20896-story.html |archive-date=16 April 2020 |page=3}}</ref> Former Polish president [[Lech Walesa]] said at the time: "The Jedwabne crime was a revenge for the cooperation of the Jewish community with the Soviet occupant. The Poles have already apologized many times to the Jews; we are waiting for the apology from the other side because many Jews were scoundrels."{{sfn|Rosenfeld|2002}}