In July 1941, the town of Jedwabne in northeastern Poland was the scene of a pogrom, in the course of which Polish inhabitants murdered almost the entire Jewish population of this small town. The massacre occurred in the first weeks of the German occupation, and German policemen were also present, though the pogrom and its brutal execution were carried out on the initiative of the town’s Polish inhabitants. The study Sąsiedzi. Historia zlałady żydowskiego miasteczka (published in 2000; “Neighbor…