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The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the Truth of a Wartime Massacre
My z Jedwabnego
Anna Bikont (born 1954)
Translated by Alissa Valles
English editions
In EnglishThe Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 20 September 2016 · Paperback · 560 pages
The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the Truth of a Wartime Massacre
William Heinemann · United Kingdom · 2015 · Hardcover
The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne
Farrar, Straus and Giroux · United States · 2015
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The crime itself had been described before; this book is above all about how it was remembered, or forgotten. The author reconstructs the July 1941 massacre in Jedwabne from local archives and from witnesses whom scholars tend to dismiss, and asks what became of its memory over sixty years. A diary written while she worked records political quarrels, lies and hatred, but also quiet acts of decency, such as those of Rachela Finkelsztejn and her husband Stanisław Ramotowski, or Antonina Wyrzykowska, and her own doubts, anger and helplessness.
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About the book
- Form
- Nonfiction
- Length
- 417 pages in the original
- Genres
- Historical, War, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Poland, 1941 and after
- First published
- 2004 by Prószyński i S-ka
- Author's age
- 50 when first published
- ISBN
9788373376946 (original)
9781785150111 (William Heinemann, United Kingdom)
9780374178796 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)
9780374536374 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)