The Crime and the Silence

Author(s): Anna Bikont

History

Winner of the European Book Prize. "A masterpiece of historical journalism ...A must read for anyone interested in the Holocaust and its aftermath". (Jan T. Gross). 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 an award-winning 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.


Product Information

A monumental work of non-fiction exploring a wartime atrocity and its sixty-year denial

Anna Bikont is a journalist for Gazeta Wyborcza,one of Poland's largest and most celebrated newspapers, which she helped found in 1989. For her articles on the crimes of Jedwabne and Radzilow, she was honored in 2001 with Poland's most prestigious award in journalism, the Press Prize. In 2008 and 2009, Bikont was a Cullman Fellow of the New York Public Library.

General Fields

  • : 9780099592525
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Penguin Books Ltd
  • : 0.512
  • : August 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 40mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : October 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Anna Bikont
  • : 560
  • : 940.531844
  • : en
  • : Paperback