Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland is a 2001 book by Princeton University historian Jan T. Gross exploring the July 1941 Jedwabne massacre committed against Polish Jews in a village in Nazi-occupied Poland by their long-time neighbors.
The book described how the massacre was perpetrated by non-Jewish civilians and not by the German invaders, as previously assumed. This prompted a forensic murder investigation b...
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland is a 2001 book by Princeton University historian Jan T. Gross exploring the July 1941 Jedwabne massacre committed against Polish Jews in a village in Nazi-occupied Poland by their long-time neighbors.
The book described how the massacre was perpetrated by non-Jewish civilians and not by the German invaders, as previously assumed. This prompted a forensic murder investigation by the Polish Institute of National Remembrance (IPN), which partly confirmed Gross's findings but stated that depositions "made by witnesses confirm complicity of both Germans and Polish inhabitants of the town.". The IPN investigation concluded that "residents of Jedwabne and its environs, of Polish nationality, committed these acts," although Gross's estimate of 1,600 victims "seems highly unlikely." The IPN found evidence only for a range of 250 to 340, while other Polish estimates suggested from 600 to close to 1,000.
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