Neighbors

Gross, Jan T

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Author
Gross, Jan T
Publish Date
11/01/2002
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
PENGUIN
Subtitle
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Number of Pages
240
Edition
59421st
ISBN-10
0142002402
ISBN-13
9780142002407
SKU
9780142002407

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.