In the book Neighbors, by Jan T. Gross it discuss the massacre that took place in a small town of Jedwabne. His story explains who the murders are what was the real intention of them killing the Jews and what really happened to the Jews that live in the small town of Jedwabne. Gross investigation to the 1941 mass-murders was blamed on the Nazi killing squads, Einsatzgruppen.
Neighbors documents the murder of the Jews living in a small town in eastern Poland during the German occupation, not by the Nazis or the German army, but by the non-Jewish Polish residents of the town, who had lived alongside their Jewish neighbors for generations. Gross investigation helps put pieces together that historians never mention and its unfolding the wider …show more content…
Some on the outside played musical instruments to drown out the victims' cries. While the guards who had surrounded the town was their to make sure that the jew wouldn’t escaped. “Around the tortured ones [they included a 90-year-old rabbi
With the outbreak of Russo-German war some people were killed, but the Jews were threatened, beaten , confiscated from their property, and would humiliate. When Soviet took occupation of the area it had a huge affect on the people but most of all the Polish and some of the private area was taken over by the soviet authorities. The Jedwabne Jew started to because scared of the rumors about the pogroms and the killing that began in vicinity.
Furthermore if it was not for Hitler ignition the fire of anti-semitic pogroms the Jews of Jedwabne won't not have been victims is such a vicious killing of so many Jews. There was thousand of Jews who were killed in the pogroms. With the war still going on many was killed and hurt which gave the poles a lead way to beated them until they lost consciousness. Some were assaulted in their own home “crowds of Polish men, women and children were standing and laughing at the miserable victims who were falling under the blows of the bandits.” The only Polish doctor in the town, Jan Mazurek refused to give any medical assistance to any Jew. During one pogrom which included the burying alive of an young girl child
Neighbors documents the murder of the Jews living in a small town in eastern Poland during the German occupation, not by the Nazis or the German army, but by the non-Jewish Polish residents of the town, who had lived alongside their Jewish neighbors for generations. Gross investigation helps put pieces together that historians never mention and its unfolding the wider …show more content…
Some on the outside played musical instruments to drown out the victims' cries. While the guards who had surrounded the town was their to make sure that the jew wouldn’t escaped. “Around the tortured ones [they included a 90-year-old rabbi
With the outbreak of Russo-German war some people were killed, but the Jews were threatened, beaten , confiscated from their property, and would humiliate. When Soviet took occupation of the area it had a huge affect on the people but most of all the Polish and some of the private area was taken over by the soviet authorities. The Jedwabne Jew started to because scared of the rumors about the pogroms and the killing that began in vicinity.
Furthermore if it was not for Hitler ignition the fire of anti-semitic pogroms the Jews of Jedwabne won't not have been victims is such a vicious killing of so many Jews. There was thousand of Jews who were killed in the pogroms. With the war still going on many was killed and hurt which gave the poles a lead way to beated them until they lost consciousness. Some were assaulted in their own home “crowds of Polish men, women and children were standing and laughing at the miserable victims who were falling under the blows of the bandits.” The only Polish doctor in the town, Jan Mazurek refused to give any medical assistance to any Jew. During one pogrom which included the burying alive of an young girl child