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September 17, 2015

Confronting the Past in Jedwabne

Telling the truth about an infamous massacre in Poland.

In the Polish town of Jedwabne, it has long been common knowledge that in July 1941 a Catholic mob burned the local Jews alive in a barn. But the publication of this information by Jan Gross in 2001 led to vociferous, and often anti-Semitic, denials throughout Poland. Anna Bikont made extensive efforts to document the massacre, resulting in a book now translated into English as The Crime and the Silence. Konstanty Gebert writes in his review:

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