Book review: The Crime and the Silence

Though mostly victims of World War II, the Poles were also the perpetrators of violence against Jews, culminating in the Jedwabne massacre when Jewish residents of the town were burned alive, as Geoffrey Roberts recounts.

AMONG the most shocking atrocities of the Second World War was the massacre at Jedwabne on July 10, 1941.

On that day the hundreds of Jews in this small Polish town were rounded up and burnt alive in a barn.