The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

A monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity, its 60-year denial, and the impact of its truth.

Jan Gross' hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn. The massacre was a shocking secret that had been suppressed for more than 60 years, and it provoked the most important public debate in Poland since 1989.Read More