Winner of the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust categoryA monumental work of nonfiction on a wartime atrocity; its sixty-year denial; and the impact of its truthJan Gross's hugely controversial Neighbors was a historian's disclosure of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10; 1941; when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn. The massacre was a shocking secret that had been suppressed for more than sixty years; and it provoked the most important public debate in Poland since 1989. From the outset; Anna Bikont reported on the town; combing through archives and interviewing residents who survived the war period. Her writing became a crucial part of the debate and she herself an actor in a national drama. Part history; part memoir; The Crime and the Silence is the journalist's account of these events: both the story of the massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses; and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past. Including the perspectives of both heroes and perpetrators; Bikont chronicles the sources of the hatred that exploded against Jews and asks what myths grow on hidden memories; what destruction they cause; and what happens to a society that refuses to accept a horrific truth. A profoundly moving exploration of being Jewish in modern Poland that Julian Barnes called "one of the most chilling books;" The Crime and the Silence is a vital contribution to Holocaust history and a fascinating story of a town coming to terms with its dark past.
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