Neighbors : the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland / Jan T. Gross.

By:

Gross, Jan T. (Jan Tomasz), 1947-

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Publication details: New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 2001.Description: xxii, 214 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cmISBN:

0142002402 (pbk.)
9780142002407 (pbk.)

Uniform titles:

Sasiedzi. English

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DDC classification:

940.53/18/0943843

LOC classification:

334 DS 135 G878n 2001

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Contents:

Outline of the story -- Sources -- Before the war -- Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 -- The outbreak of the Russo-German War and the Pogrom in Radzilów -- Preparations -- Who murdered the Jews of Jedwabne? -- The murder -- Plunder -- Intimate biographies -- Anachronism -- What do people remember? -- Collective responsibility -- New approach to sources -- Is it possible to be simultaneously a victim and a victimizer? -- Collaboration -- Social support for Stalinism -- For a new historiography.

Summary: 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.

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Contains a new afterword.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-200) and index.

Outline of the story --
Sources --
Before the war --
Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941 --
The outbreak of the Russo-German War and the Pogrom in Radzilów --
Preparations --
Who murdered the Jews of Jedwabne? --
The murder --
Plunder --
Intimate biographies --
Anachronism --
What do people remember? --
Collective responsibility --
New approach to sources --
Is it possible to be simultaneously a victim and a victimizer? --
Collaboration --
Social support for Stalinism --
For a new historiography.

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.

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