The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne

"An astonishing act of investigation and documentation . . . A terrifying and necessary book . . . deeply heartening as an act of historical reclamation." —Julian Barnes, Booker Award–winning author of The Sense of an Ending

Winner of the National Jewish Book Award

Jan 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 ma...