Bibliograph

Neighbors, The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, Jan T. Gross

Type

Label

Neighbors, The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland, Jan T. Gross

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Neighbors

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jan T. Gross

Sub title

The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

Summary

A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the Holocaust On July 10, 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 classic of Holocaust history, Jan Gross reveals how Jedwabne's Jews were murdered not by faceless Nazis but by people who knew them well-their non-Jewish Polish neighbors. A previously untold story of the complicity of non-Germans in the extermination of the Jews, Neighbors shows how people victimized by the Nazis could at the same time victimize their Jewish fellow citizens. In a new preface, Gross reflects on the book's explosive international impact and the backlash it continues to provoke from right-wing Polish nationalists who still deny their ancestors' role in the destruction of the Jews

Target audience

adult

Classification