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Neighbors
The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
Book • 2024
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.
The book reveals how Jedwabne's Jews were murdered not by faceless Nazis but by people who knew them well—their non-Jewish Polish neighbors.
Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence to reconstruct the horrific events, highlighting the complicity of non-Germans in the extermination of the Jews.
The book also explores the wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.
The book reveals how Jedwabne's Jews were murdered not by faceless Nazis but by people who knew them well—their non-Jewish Polish neighbors.
Gross pieces together eyewitness accounts and other evidence to reconstruct the horrific events, highlighting the complicity of non-Germans in the extermination of the Jews.
The book also explores the wider truths about Jewish-Polish relations, the Holocaust, and human responses to occupation and totalitarianism.
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Mentioned in 1 episodes
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Chris Hedges as being very good on people trying to return to their homes after surviving the death camps and being killed.
Chris Hedges as being very good on people trying to return to their homes after surviving the death camps and being killed.
The Shared Mythological History of Israel and the US (w/ Joan Scott) | The Chris Hedges Report
Mentioned by Candice Lim when discussing films directed by Nicholas Stoller.
You're Cordially Invited
Mentioned by Ewa Stańczyk as a book that impacted her and her generation's understanding of Polish complicity in the Holocaust.
Ewa Stańczyk, "Cartoons and Antisemitism: Visual Politics of Interwar Poland" (U Press of Mississippi, 2024)
