Police in western Poland are investigating whether a historic Jewish cemetery was damaged after workers uncovered human remains and tombstones at a construction site. The head of Poland's Jewish community, Leslaw Piszewski, said he was "devastated" by the report. So far, only about 500 out of some 1,600 Jewish cemeteries have been returned to the Jewish community in Poland, including some synagogues and prayer houses, he said. An amateur historian, Wojciech Janda, said the site is a 200-year-old small Jewish cemetery. According to Janda, the first written mention of Maszewo's Jewish cemetery dates back to 1820, when the area was part of Prussia and then Germany.

Source: ABC News August 31, 2017 14:42 UTC