The following news report has appeared at the Radio ZET website (for the original in Polish see http://www.radiozet.com.pl/Info19924.html ):Radio ZET, March 26, 2001

MURDER IN JEDWABNE: NEW DOCUMENTS FOUND!

The Central Directorate of State Archives, together with the Council forPreserving the Memory of Struggle and Martyrdom, make public the so farunknown documents related to the crime in Jedwabne.These documents reveal that the crime was part of the German policy toexterminate the Jewish population. Mrs. Daria Nalecz, from the Directorateof Archives, also has stressed the fact that in Jedwabne some Poles werekilled as well; this puts a completely different perspective on the Polishparticipation in this murder.The documents in question, as well as the testimonies of witnesses to theseevents, have been presented at a press conference [...]

According to the daily news broadcast by Radio "Bis", Professor Daria Nalecz announced the discovery of new documents related to Jedwabne. These documents are testimonies of witnesses to the muder of Jews, deposited in 1947, that is, one year before other [i.e., quoted by Gross] Jedwabne relations.

Twenty eight depositions include nine made by Jews. They all state that the crime has been committed by Germans.

The daily news at the Polish Radio Program Three quoted the director of the Modern Documents Archive [Archiwum Akt Nowych] in Warsaw confirming the find of 28 depositions about Jedwabne. They are unanimous in pointing out Germans as the culprits. They contain no mention of Poles and their collaboration.

The nine Jewish testimonies include one by a man who has been marched in the column of Jews to the barn, and managed to run away at the very last moment. He also blames the Germans and doesn't mention the Poles. Another deposition indicates that in Jedwabne also died several Poles."