Language:
English
Year of publication:
2001
Titel der Quelle:
East European Jewish Affairs
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,1 (2001) 77-94
Keywords:
Gross, Jan Tomasz
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Jews
Abstract:
For half a century after 1945, Poles considered the 1941 massacre of Jews in Jedwabne as an atrocity perpetrated solely by the German occupiers, without any local involvement. In doing so, the Poles behaved just like the Soviets who staunchly ascribed the massacre of 27,000 Polish officers in Katyn to the Germans. The publication of Jan T. Gross's "Neighbors" in 2000 triggered a furious response. The press attacked Gross, and some noted authors (e.g. Szarota, Zakowski, Kaczynski) tried to find details mitigating the guilt of Jedwabne residents; others, like Kobos, supported Gross. Contends that instead of proclaiming their national innocence, the Poles have to admit that it was Poles rather than Jews who supported the pro-Soviet communist regime in Poland both in 1939-41 and after 1945, and that it was Poles rather than Germans who perpetrated the massacre in Jedwabne.
DOI:
10.1080/13501670108577938
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