
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
A landmark book that changed the story of Poland's role in the Holocaust
On 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- More Praise for Neighbors
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Epigraph
- 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
- Postscript
- Notes
- Index
- Also by Jan T. Gross