Neighbors : the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland / Jan T. Gross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gross, Jan Tomasz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2022]

Summary:

A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the HolocaustOn 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. In this shocking and compelling classic of Holocaust history, Jan Gross reveals how Jedwabne's Jews were murdered not by faceless Nazis but by people who knew them well--their non-Jewish Polish neighbors. A previously untold story of the complicity of non-Germans in the extermination of the Jews, Neighbors shows how people victimized by the Nazis could at the same time victimize their Jewish fellow citizens. In a new preface, Gross reflects on the book's explosive international impact and the backlash it continues to provoke from right-wing Polish nationalists who still deny their ancestors' role in the destruction of the Jews.

Contents:

Postscript

Notes

Index

Cover

Title Page

Contents

Preface to the 2022 Edition

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Outline of the Story

Sources

Before the War

Soviet Occupation, 1939-1941

The Outbreak of the Russo-German War and the Pogrom in Radziłów

Preparations

Who Murdered the Jews of Jedwabne

The Murder

Plunder

Intimate Biographies

Anachronism

What Do People Remember

Collective Responsibility

New Approach to Sources

Is It Possible to Be Simultaneously a Victim and a Victimizer?

Collaboration

Social Support for Stalinism

For a New Historiography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780691234311

0691234310

OCLC:

1296425740