The crime and the silence : a quest for the truth of a wartime massacre / Anna Bikont ; translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: Polish Publisher: London Windmill Books, 2016Copyright date: ©2015Description: 544 pages : portraits ; 20 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780099592525Uniform titles: My z Jedwabnego. English. Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Poland | Antisemitism -- Poland -- History -- 20th century | Poland -- Ethnic relationsDDC classification: 940.531844 Summary: On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon the town's Jewish population, hundreds of men, women and children, were ordered out of their homes and marched into the town square. By the end of the day most would be dead. It was a massacre on a shocking scale and one that was widely condemned. But only a few people were brought to justice for their part in the atrocity. The truth of what actually happened on that day was to be suppressed for more than sixty years. Part history, part memoir, part investigation, The Crime and the Silence is a journalist's account of the events of that day: both the story of a massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past.
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First published in Poland in 2004 Wydawnictwo Proszynski i Ska, Poland as "My z Jedwabnego".
This translation first published in Great Britain by William Heinemann in 2015.
Includes index.
On 10 July 1941 a horrifying crime was committed in the small Polish town of Jedwadbne. Early in the afternoon the town's Jewish population, hundreds of men, women and children, were ordered out of their homes and marched into the town square. By the end of the day most would be dead. It was a massacre on a shocking scale and one that was widely condemned. But only a few people were brought to justice for their part in the atrocity. The truth of what actually happened on that day was to be suppressed for more than sixty years. Part history, part memoir, part investigation, The Crime and the Silence is a journalist's account of the events of that day: both the story of a massacre told through oral histories of survivors and witnesses, and a portrait of a Polish town coming to terms with its dark past.
Translated from the Polish.
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