Description
The book is about the massacre of Polish civilians by the Soviet Union in the town of Jedwabne in 1941. The author, Anna Bikont, is a journalist who has written about the massacre and the town's reaction to it.
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.