The crime and the silence : a quest for the truth of a wartime massacre

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The crime and the silence : a quest for the truth of a wartime massacre

Title remainder

a quest for the truth of a wartime massacre

Statement of responsibility

Anna Bikont ; translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles

Creator

• Bikont, Anna

Contributor

• Valles, Alissa

Subject

• Bikont, Anna
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Jedwabne
• Jews -- Poland | Jedwabne -- History -- 20th century
• Poland -- Ethnic relations
• Warfare and Defence

Language

• eng
• pol
• eng

Summary

In July 1941, just weeks after the Germans invaded Russia, the Jewish population of a small Polish town - hundreds of men, women and children - were ordered out of their homes, and forced into a barn. The barn was then set on fire. Anyone attempting to escape, or found in hiding, was quickly killed. The story soon spread that the massacre was organised and executed by Nazi paramilitary forces. It seemed to fit. Similar atrocities had taken place in nearby villages - although none of this scale. But the truth was very different. Over the course of the twentieth century fragments of the real story began to surface. It emerged that the perpetrators of the act were in fact the Polish villagers, who, on one afternoon, turned on and killed their Jewish neighbours. But why?

Member of

• My z Jedwabnego

Cataloging source

StDuBDS

Dewey number

• 940.5'31844
• 940.531844

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction