iRead Book Club: "The Crime and the Silence"

Join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a book discussion led by museum historians and educators. This session, they will discuss The Crime and the Silence: Confronting the Massacre of Jews in Wartime Jedwabne by Anna Bikont.

Part history, part memoir, The Crime and the Silence is journalist Anna Bikont's account of the events in the small Polish town of Jedwabne on July 10, 1941, when the citizens rounded up the Jewish population and burned them alive in a barn. The massacre was a shocking secret that had been suppressed for more than sixty years, and its discovery provoked an important public debate in Poland. Including the perspectives of both heroes and perpetrators, Bikont chronicles the sources of the hatred that led to this violence and asks what myths grow on hidden memories, what destruction they cause, and what happens to a society that refuses to accept a horrific truth.

Space is limited! Please register for one ticket per device used. This virtual event will take place on the online platform Zoom. A link to join will be sent to registered guests via email one hour before the start of the program.

Register here.