Pre-Owned Neighbors : The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland (Hardcover) 9780691086675

from hystrybuf

A powerful book relating the story of Jedwabne, Poland where the Polish population is responsible for the murder of the town's Jewish population in 1941. I have long lived with the myth that all Poles were sympathetic to the Jews, but historically this wasn't the case - as anti-semitism continued...

from kimbee

I read this for my Holocaust class. I think many people, me included, when they hear about the Holocaust they assume it was only Germans killing the Jews. This book examines the town Jedwabne where Polish people killed their Jewish neighbors. It opened my eyes. It amazed me how the truth was kept...

from BooksForDinner

Some pretty difficult reading. What makes human beings do this? Wowee.

from ScoutJ

What would it do to your self-image as a country if it wasn't the Nazis who perpetrated the Holocaust, but your neighbors? What if the Nazis stood by and watched while the people that had lived next door to you, in some cases for decades, brutally murdered every Jewish person in your town? Jan T....

from drbubbles

Sets the record straight (for non-Poles, at least) about who massacred the Jews in Jedwabne, Poland, in 1941. Gross tries to make an historiographical case study out of it but fails. Brief story briefer: 98+% of Jedwabne's Jewish residents were murdered in early July 1941. History held that it wa...