Neighbors
Subtitle: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland
By: Jan T. Gross.
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Jews -- Poland -- Jedwabne -- History; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland -- Jedwabne; World War, 1939-1945 -- Collaborationists -- Poland -- Jedwabne; Jedwabne (Poland) -- Ethnic relations
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-200) and index.
Contains a new afterword.