Neighbors : The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

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Neighbors : The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland / Jan Tomasz Gross. - Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001. - 261 stron : fotografie, ilustracje ; 20 cm.

Author

Gross, Jan Tomasz (1947- ). Autor

Form of Work

Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe

Demographic Group

Literatura polska

Subject

Antysemityzm Żydzi Pogromy Żydów Pogrom w Jedwabnem (1941) II wojna światowa (1939-1945) Holokaust Polska Jedwabne (woj. podlaskie, pow. łomżyński, gm. Jedwabne ; okolice)

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Wydawnictwa popularne

One summer day in 1941, half of the Polish town of Jedwabne murdered the other half – 1,600 men, women, and children – all but seven of the town's Jews. This is a shocking, brutal story that has never before been told. Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence into an engulfing reconstruction of the horrific July day remembered well by locals but forgotten by history. His investigation reads like a detective story, and its unfolding yields wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism. Most arresting is the sinking realization that Jedwabne's Jews werw clubbed, drowned, gutted, and burned not by faceless Nazis, but by people whose features and names they knew well. In many ways, this is a simple book. It is easy to read in a single sitting – and hard not to. But its simplicity is deceptive. Gross's new and persuasive answers to vexed questions rewrite the history of twentieth-century Poland. This books proves, finally, that the fates of Poles and Jews during World War II can be comprehended only together.

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Tyt. okł.: Sąsiedzi: historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka

General note

Tytuł oryginału: Sąsiedzi: historia zagłady żydowskiego miasteczka.

Indeks na stronach 249-261.