The Crime and the Silence

Informationen zum Autor 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 Radzilów, 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. Klappentext The winner of the European Book Prize, this is an account of the wartime atrocity in the Polish town of Jedwadbne, on 10th July 1941. The town's Jewish population, hundreds of men, women and children, were massacred in the town square. Zusammenfassung 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Anna Bikont
• Editore: Windmill Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9780099592525
• ISBN: 978-0-09-959252-5
• Pagine: 560
• Dimensioni: 129 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Serie: WINDMILL BOOKS
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > XX° secolo (fino al 1945); Germany, HISTORY / Military / World War II, HISTORY / Holocaust, Poland, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Jewish, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Second World War, The Holocaust, Reportage & collected journalism, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, Reportage, journalism or collected columns