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 Radzil w, 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.
An astonishing act of investigation and documentation. In the face
of lies, denial and massive indifference, Bikont has established
exactly what happened ... The result is a terrifying and necessary
book, unsparing in its detail, but deeply heartening as an act of
historical reclamation.
*Julian Barnes*
Scrupulously objective and profoundly personal.
*Kate Atkinson, Books of the Year, Wall Street Journal*
A powerful and important study of the poisonous effects of racism
and hatred within a community.
*Guardian*
A masterpiece of historical journalism … A must read for anyone
interested in the Holocaust and its aftermath.
*Jan T. Gross*
A hauntingly plausible contemporary history, tactfully delivering
truths that we might all do well to contemplate.
*Timothy Snyder, author of Black Earth*
Humane, measured and painstakingly researched ... It is a hard-won
testament to the importance of historical truth.
*Daily Mail 'Must Reads'*
Beautifully written, devastating and very important.
*The New York Times*
One of the most important and most dramatic books of the last
decade.
*Ryszard Kapuscinski*
Magisterial... meticulous in its procedures, absolute in its
commitment to truth. Bikont's book is a book about forgetting,
about the pollution of memory, about the conflict between the easy,
convenient truth and the awkward, harder truth. It is a work that
grows from its journalistic manner and origins into the most
powerful writing of necessary history.
*The New York Review of Books*
The Crime and the Silence deserves to be read by everyone
interested in the fraught politics of apology and the ongoing
struggle of nations and communities to ascertain and accept
difficult historical truths.
*Irish Times*
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