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<p>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. Neighbors tells their story.<br></p><p>This is a shocking, brutal story that has never before been told. It is the most important study of Polish-Jewish relations to be published in decades and should become a classic of Holocaust literature.<br></p><p>Jan 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. It is a story of surprises: The newly occupying German army did not compel the massacre, and Jedwabne's Jews and Christians had previously enjoyed cordial relations. After the war, the nearby family who saved Jedwabne's surviving Jews was derided and driven from the area. The single Jew offered mercy by the town declined it.<br></p><p>Most arresting is the sinking realization that Jedwabne's Jews were clubbed, drowned, gutted,

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Author

Jan Tomasz Gross

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781283590914

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, World History, Humanities

Rating

3.95 / 5 (1,486 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14