 Some time earlier, during the Jedwabne pogrom close by, a minimum of 300 Polish Jews were burned alive in a barn set on fire by a group of Polish men under the German command.Wyrzykowska was honored as Righteous among the Nations for her heroism, but left her hometown after liberation for fear of retribution.In Poland's cities and larger towns, the Nazi occupiers created ghettos that were designed to imprison the local Jewish populations.