Title: Neighbors
First published: 2002
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.
Subjects: Jews, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), Ethnic relations, History, Collaborationists, World War, 1939-1945, Jews, poland, Holocaust, jewish (1939-1945), personal narratives
Places: Jedwabne, Poland, Jedwabne (Poland)
LC classification: DS135.P62 J443913 2002