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

By Anna Bikont

Book information

Publisher
William Heinemann
Year
2015
ISBN
9781473518988
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2606470 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
0\0
Topic
History
Time added
2018-12-16 12:52:44

Description

On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon, the town's Jewish population – hundreds of men, women and children – were ordered out of their homes, and marched into the town square. By the end of the day most would be dead. It was a massacre on a shocking scale, and one that was widely condemned. But only a few people were brought to justice for their part in the atrocity. The truth of what actually happened on that day was to be suppressed for more than sixty years. Part history, part memoir, part investigation, The Crime and the Silence is an award-winning journalist's account of the events of that day: both the story of a massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past.

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