Publication

2002 - Penguin Books, New York, N.Y, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

53,500 words, Guess

Page Count

214 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing276799
  • Goodreads73698

Classifications

  • DDC940.53/18/0943843
  • LCCDS135.P62 J443913 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

Other Editions

  • Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, PolandPenguin Books2002-01-01

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