The Neighbors Respond

Neighbors - Jan Gross's stunning account of the brutal mass murder of the Jews of Jedwabne by their Polish neighbors - was met with international critical acclaim and was a finalist for the National Book Award in the United States.

Antony Polonsky is Albert Abramson Professor of Holocaust Studies at Brandeis University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Joanna B. Michlic is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the International Institute of Holocaust Research at Yad Vashem, Jerusalem

PREFACE

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INTRODUCTION

1

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PART I: THE INITIAL REPORTING

INTRODUCTION

47

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Andrzej Kaczynski

"Burnt Offering," Rzeczpospolita, 5 May 2000

50

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Gabriela Szczesna

"The Blood of Jedwabne," Kontakty, 7 May 2000

60

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Maria Kaczynska

"In Memory and Admonition," Gazeta Wspólczesna, 11 July 2000

64

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PART II: THE MORAL DEBATE

INTRODUCTION

69

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Zofia Kossak-Szczucka

"Prophecies Are Being Fulfilled," Prawda, May 1942

72

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Joanna Tokarska-Bakir

"Obsessed with Innocence," Gazeta Wyborcza, 13-14 January 2001

75

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Jan Nowak-Jezioranski

"A Need for Compensation," Rzeczpospolita, 26 January 2001

87

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Antoni Macierewicz

"The Revolution of Nihilism," Glos, 3 February 2001

93

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Hanna Swida-Ziemba

"The Shortsightedness of the 'Cultured,'" Gazeta Wyborcza, 6 April 2001

103

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Jerzy Slawomir Mac

"Homo Jedvabicus," Wprost, 22 July 2001

114

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PART III: OFFICIAL STATEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

121

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Living in Truth: Special Statement by Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek regarding the Slaughter of Jews in Jedwabne in 1941, April 2001

125

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Address Delivered by Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs, Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., 5 April 2001

126

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Address by President of Poland Aleksander Kwasniewski at the Ceremonies in Jedwabne Marking the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Jedwabne Tragedy on 10 July 2001

130

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Findings of Investigation S 1/00/Zn into the Murder of Polish Citizens of Jewish Origin in the Town of Jedwabne on 10 July 1941, pursuant to Article 1 Point 1 of the Decree of 31 August 1944

133

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"Jedwabne-Let Us Be Silent in the Face of This Crime: Piotr Lipinski Talks with Professor Andrzej Rzeplinski," Gazeta Wyborcza, 22 July 2002

137

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PART IV: THE DEBATE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

INTRODUCTION

147

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"A Poor Christian Looks at Jedwabne: Adam Boniecki and Michal Okonski Talk with Archbishop Henryk Muszynski," Tygodnik Powszechny, 25 March 2001

155

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Interview with the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Józef Glemp, on the Murder of Jews in Jedwabne, 15 May 2001

166

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Rev. Stanislaw Musial, "We Ask You to Help Us Be Better," Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 May 2001

173

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PART V: VOICES OF THE INHABITANTS OF JEDWABNE

INTRODUCTION

181

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"We Are Different People: A Discussion about Jedwabne in Jedwabne," Wieí, April 2001

186

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Marta Kurkowska-Budzan, "My Jedwabne"

200

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PART VI: MEMORIES AND METHODOLOGIES: THE HISTORICAL DEBATE

INTRODUCTION

209

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Tomasz Strzembosz

"Collaboration Passed Over in Silence," Rzeczpospolita, 27 January 2001

220

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Jerzy Jedlicki

"How to Grapple with the Perplexing Legacy," Polityka, 10 February 2001

237

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"A Roundtable Discussion: Jedwabne-Crime and Memory," Rzeczpospolita, 3 March 2001

247

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Anna Bikont

"We of Jedwabne," Gazeta Wyborcza, 23 March 2001

267

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Bogdan Musial

"The Pogrom in Jedwabne: Critical Remarks about Jan T. Gross's Neighbors"

304

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Jan Gross

"Critical Remarks Indeed"

344

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"Jedwabne without Stereotypes: Agnieszka Sabor and Marek Zajác Talk with Professor Tomasz Szarota," Tygodnik Powszechny, 28 April 2002

371

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Dariusz Stola

"Jedwabne: How Was It Possible?"

386

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PART VII: THE DISCUSSION OUTSIDE POLAND

INTRODUCTION

403

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David Engel

"Introduction to the Hebrew Edition of Neighbors"

408

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Israel Gutman

"Do the Poor Poles Really Look at the Ghetto? Introduction to Hebrew Edition of Neighbors"

414

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István Deák

"Heroes and Victims" (Extracts), New York Review of Books, 31 May 2001

421

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Richard Lukas

"Jedwabne and the Selling of the Holocaust," Polish American Journal, May 2001

430

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Adam Michnik

"Poles and the Jews: How Deep the Guilt?" New York Times, 17 March 2001

434

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Leon Wieseltier and Adam Michnik

"Washington Diarist: Righteous" and an Exchange of Letters, New Republic, 9, 17, and 24 April 2001

440

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CHRONOLOGY

451

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EXPLANATORY NOTES

459

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INDEX

471

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