The Crime and the Silence (85 page)

Journal:    January 2–February 6, 2001

  
2
I Wanted to Save Her Life—Love Came Later

or, The Story of Rachela Finkelsztejn and Stanisław Ramotowski

Journal:    February 7–March 10, 2001

  
3
We Suffered Under the Soviets, the Germans, and People's Poland

or, The Story of the Three Brothers Laudański

Journal:    March 11–March 28, 2001

  
4
You Didn't See That Grief in Jews

or, Polish and Jewish Memory of the Soviet Occupation

Journal:    March 29–May 12, 2001

  
5
I'll Tell You Who Did It: My Father

or, The Private Investigation of Jan Skrodzki

Journal:    May 13–June 1, 2001

  
6
If I'd Been in Jedwabne Then

or, The Story of Meir Ronen, Exiled to Kazakhstan

Journal:    June 3–June 14, 2001

  
7
A Time Will Come When Even Stones Will Speak

or, The Soliloquies of Leszek Dziedzic

Journal:    June 18–July 10, 2001

  
8
Your Only Chance Was to Pass for a Goy

or, The Survival of Awigdor Kochaw

Journal:    July 11–November 30, 2001

  
9
A Desperate Search for Something Positive

or, The Soliloquies of Krzysztof Godlewski, Ex-Mayor of Jedwabne

Journal:    December 1–December 30, 2001

10
Only I Knew There Were Seven of Them

or, The Story of Antonina Wyrzykowska

11
I, Szmul Wasersztejn, Warn You

or, The Road from Jedwabne to Costa Rica

Journal:    January 1–February 25, 2002

12
They Had Vodka, Guns, and Hatred

or, July 7, 1941, in Radziłów

Journal:    February 27–June 17, 2002

13
The Dreams of Chaja Finkelsztejn

or, The Survival of a Radziłów Miller's Family

Journal:    June 16–December 1, 2002

14
Decent Polish Kids and Hooligans

or, On the Murderers of Jedwabne, Radziłów, Wąsosz, and the Surrounding Areas

Journal:    January 10, 2003–July 10, 2004

15
Strictly Speaking, Poles Did It

or, A Conversation with Prosecutor Radosław Ignatiew

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

Frontispiece

A Note About the Author and Translator

Copyright

 

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Copyright © 2004 by Anna Bikont

Translation copyright © 2015 by Alissa Valles

All rights reserved

Originally published in Polish in 2004 by Wydawnictwo Prószyński i Ska, Poland, as
My z Jedwabnego

English translation published in the United States by Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First American edition, 2015

Frontispiece map copyright © Magdalena Korotyńska.

Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint “Mr. Cogito Seeks Advice,” from
The Collected Poems: 1956–1998
, by Zbigniew Herbert. Translated and edited by Alissa Valles. Copyright © 2007 by the Estate of Zbigniew Herbert. Translation copyright © 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers LLC. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bikont, Anna.

    [My z Jedwabnego. English]

    The crime and the silence: confronting the massacre of Jews in wartime Jedwabne / Anna Bikont; translated from the Polish by Alissa Valles.—First American edition.

        pages    cm

    “Originally published in Polish in 2004 by Wydawnictwo Prószyński i Ska, Poland, as My z Jedwabnego”—Title page verso.

    ISBN 978-0-374-17879-6 (hardback)—ISBN 978-0-374-71032-3 (e-book)

    1.  Holocaust, Jewish (1939–1945)—Poland—Jedwabne.   2.  Jews—Poland—Jedwabne—History—20th century.   3.  Bikont, Anna—Diaries.   4.  Jedwabne (Poland)—Ethnic relations—History—20th century.   5.  Jedwabne (Poland)—Biography.   6.  Collective memory—Poland—Jedwabne.   I.  Title.

DS134.66.J43 B4513 2015

940.53'1844—dc23

2014046631

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