Jews of PolandThe Struggle for Truth

Historian Jan T Gross caused a scandal in Poland with the publication of his book ‘Neighbours’ in 2000 which described how ordinary Poles, rather than German soldiers, had murdered their Jewish neighbours in the village of Jedwabne in World War II. The bitter dispute that followed on the Polish role in the Holocaust has divided society as academics struggle to tell the truth on the eradication of Poland’s jews.