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In July 2000, prompted by the publication of ‘ Neighbors ,’ the Polish Institute of National Remembrance ( Instytut Pamięci Narodowej, IPN ), then a recently created independent successor to the Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland, commenced an investigation of the Jedwabne pogrom, as its first project.

A major task assigned to IPN was the promotion of historical research on topics on which discussion was not permitted during the 1945-1989 period of Communist rule, and anti-Semitic pogroms were such a topic.