Neighbors has been noted and debated on home ground. If there were those, including allegedly respectable academics, who tried to deny Gross's overwhelming evidence or who simply denounced him as a traitor to Poland's sacred cause, there were those who acknowledged the terrible force and importance of his indictment. Glemp himself allowed that Gross's narrative was 'incontestable'. The President of Poland has asked his constituents to 'seek forgiveness for what our compatriots have done'. Gross believes that a genuine shift of sensibility is nascent in that tormented land.
Nothing can make up for the horror.
But if the screams of those burning alive at Jedwabne are heard at last, they may not have been completely in vain.