num_pages: 214
description: On a summer day in 1941 in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and children-all but seven of the town's Jews. In this shocking and compelling study, historian Jan Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts as well as physical evidence into a comprehensive reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but hidden to history. Revealing wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism, Gross's investigation sheds light on how Jedwabne's Jews came to be murdered-not by faceless Nazis, but by people who knew them well.
language: English
title: Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
titlecomplete: Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
genres: Jewish, Historical, School, European History, Poland, War, Nonfiction, History, Holocaust, World War II
ratings_count: 2842
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike), awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Penguin